Hostility between Iran and Saudi Arabia is going to get worse
An Iranian agent seeking to recruit a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in an American restaurant. "No one could take this place, right?" Asked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday. But the FBI says it's the last straw in a cold war in the Middle East that has dragged since 1979 between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
For years, Saudi Arabia led the conservative, pro-American camp in the Middle East against Egypt radical Nasser. This era ended when the ambitions dissolved in Egyptian defeat of 1967.When Egypt was then signed an unpopular peace treaty with Israel in 1979, dreams of Cairo of the regional faded. But it was also the year of a political earthquake: the Iranian revolution.
With its distinct language and ethos, Iran had always mocked the Arabs. Who were these uncultured nomads to talk down to one of the oldest civilizations in the world? Moreover, Iran is 90 percent Shiite, while the Arab League states are more than 80 percent Sunni.The Saudi monarchy ruled with the support of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi establishment of religion, which sees the ruling mullahs of Iran as dangerous heretics.
If the Iranian government actually ordered an assassination and bombing on American soil, it represents an escalation of a proxy war which was constant for 30 years. Almost immediately he came to power, Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Iranian revolution, said that "the concept of monarchy totally contradicts Islam." He similarly despised secular government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Armed conflict was inevitable. During the Iran-Iraq War in the Eighties, the Gulf states, helped by Saudi oil wealth, gave $60 billion to Iraq every year. Saudi warplanes shot down Iranian aircraft, and diplomatic relations were severed in 1988.
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