{"id":8974,"date":"2021-06-04T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/2021\/06\/04\/saudi-arabia-and-iran-between-push-and-pull\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T01:16:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T01:16:31","slug":"saudi-arabia-and-iran-between-push-and-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/04\/saudi-arabia-and-iran-between-push-and-pull\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia and Iran between push and pull &#8230;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle East remained surrounded and besieged by the political rivalry between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Iran for decades,<!--more-->and the conflict still exists until this moment between statements and allusions.<br \/>\nOf course, many of the conflicts and rebellions that exist today have their roots in this hostility, and Iraq, Syria,<br \/>\nYemen and Lebanon are only glaring examples of this conflict, and it is worth noting that matters have worsened<br \/>\nafter the arrival of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to power and his decision to war on Yemen<br \/>\n&#8211; Where the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have explicit and unquestionable support &#8211; as well as his support for opponents<br \/>\nof President Bashar al-Assad, Iran&#8217;s ally in Syria, of course these areas have been, and are, witnesses to this conflict.<br \/>\nAnother example is the historical support by the United States of America to Saudi Arabia, which was matched on the other<br \/>\nhand by the tightening of sanctions on Iran by the administration of former United States President Donald Trump, which made<br \/>\nit unlikely at that time that appropriate opportunities would be available to thaw relations between the two countries.<br \/>\nIn fact, according to reliable sources, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has established hidden relations with Israel to form an alliance against Iran,<br \/>\nand this was a key factor in establishing diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and several other Islamic countries and between Israel.<br \/>\nBut after the election of Joe Biden to the presidency in the United States of America, the geostrategic environment has changed.<br \/>\nAnd the matter began to emerge at an early stage. During Joe Biden\u2019s presidential campaign, he criticized the human rights record in Saudi Arabia<br \/>\nseveral times, as well as the issue of the conflict in Yemen, followed by the issuance of American reports about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi,<br \/>\nso the interaction by the new American administration -and before President Biden was elected &#8211; with the files related to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,<br \/>\nsomehow indicates a change in the clear form of the relationship from what it was in the time of Trump.<br \/>\nCurrently, the new foreign policy of the United States seeks to maintain a minimum level of involvement in the Middle East after focusing and<br \/>\ndevoting energy to the Asia-Pacific region due to the factor of China and other emerging economies, and in conjunction with this caution and<br \/>\nambiguity towards the Middle East by the Biden administration there is tireless work by these The administration to revive the nuclear agreement,<br \/>\nwhich will greatly change the balance of power in the region if it is achieved.<br \/>\nOf course, in light of this changing environment, and in the interest of a strong and effective presence in the region, Prince Mohammed bin Salman<br \/>\nspoke in a television interview in April about a desire to negotiate with Iran in order to improve relations, and in fact, there were informal dialogues &#8211; according<br \/>\nto New York Times &#8211; Already taking place between the heads of the Saudi and Iranian intelligence agencies in Baghdad for a few months, the results<br \/>\nare not likely to be available soon, but it may be a good start for peace in the Middle East.<br \/>\nAs for the desire of the US administration at the present time to get closer to Iran, perhaps the most important reason is the announced Chinese investment,<br \/>\nwhich amounts to 400 billion US dollars, which is distributed in the fields of energy and infrastructure during the next twenty-five years,<br \/>\nWe also do not forget that Iran, as a neighboring country to Afghanistan, can play an important positive role in consolidating peace after the withdrawal<br \/>\nof US forces from it in September.<br \/>\n&#8211; As for the situation of the Saudi leadership, the security and safety of the Kingdom and its presence within a calm and stable environment is of one of<br \/>\nits most important priorities at the present time, and to ensure the continuity of this security and to close many fronts of conflict, Mohammed bin Salman<\/p>\n<p>started a dialogue with Iran and improved relations with Qatar and showed the desire By achieving a ceasefire in Yemen, and reviving the tense relations to<br \/>\nsome extent with Pakistan due to the difference in the total dependence in security matters on the United States of America and the fact that Pakistan is in<br \/>\nagreement with China because of the strategic partnership between China and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the current dialogue between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Iran are not likely to be noticeably visible in the near future,<br \/>\nbut only signs of breaking the ice of relations give hope for good and stability in the Middle East, which has been wracked by conflicts between many<br \/>\nplayers who have exploited this competition for their own interests .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle East remained surrounded and besieged by the political rivalry between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Iran for decades,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[893,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-political-studies","8":"category-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9975,"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions\/9975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thualfuqar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}