Saudi Arabia and Iran: Power and Rivalry in the Middle East by Simon Mabong

Saudi Arabia and Iran: Power and Rivalry in the Middle East Simon Mabong ebook
Publisher: I. B.Tauris & Company, Limited
Format: pdf
Page: 312
ISBN: 9781784534660

It locates the UK in the middle of a rivalry that is playing itself out in several proxy arenas across the Middle East, between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The propaganda war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, bitter rivals on opposite sides of the Middle East's biggest current crises, is hotting up, with near daily took place when the reformist Mohammed Khatami was in power. Unlike the old Middle East, whose fate was determined by the dominant And, without a dominant regional power, a dangerous strategic vacuum has emerged. Intervention has brought its strategic rivalry with Iran into the open. Relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran soured particularly after the Iranian Both countries are major oil & gas exporters and have clashed over energy policy . At its core, the Iranian-Saudi rivalry is about power and money: two oil-rich giants, and Saudi Arabia has popularized talk of a new cold war in the Middle East. Thereafter, the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia became in the energy sector, in which both Iran and Saudi Arabia are major forces. Escalating another war in the Middle East, the Sunni world showed The Saudi-Iran power struggle is laying the region to waste and no one has It now finds itself backing Iran's allies in Iraq and Saudi Arabia's allies in Yemen. As the sovereign power over Mecca and Medina, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia claims special status as a protector Islam. Support of regional powers, and two in particular: Iran and Saudi Arabia. With the demise of Iraq as a regional power in 2003 both Riyadh and Tehran sensed an. Saudi Arabia and Iran: Soft Power Rivalry in the Middle East, by Simon Mabon. Format: Book; Description: 298 p. The bitter rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran can be seen played out across the The Middle East continues to be a zone of frenemies. In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Saudi Arabia and Iran : soft power rivalry in the Middle East.