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What Saudi Arabia's Reconciliation With Iran Means for the Region

Ones and Tooze

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The Saudi-Iranian Rivalry Is Real

In places where the Saudi-Iranian rivalry has exacerbated existing conflicts internally, those conflicts are real. We should recognize that the conflict between Saudi and Iran is also not just simply an ego thing because there's a substantial Shia minority in Saudi Arabia. The current escalation of tension between the two has a lot to do with a Saudi crackdown which led to the execution of a very prominent Shia cleric leader in Saudi Arabia," he says.

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