Iran Foreign Policy toward Saudi Arabia Aftermath of Arab Uprising

Abstract

Iran and Saudi Arab are two aggressive revivals in the region. After Arab
spring the blame game between the reaches at peak. Each of both
countries made accountable for Arab unrest. In the course of Middle East
history both the rival began to find regional proxies and covert alliance
and counter alliance turned the region into more insecure zone. Arab
uprising marked the region change in the region. But Saudi kings
tactically tackled the issue of internal eruption. In various time from 2011
to 2013 Riyadh blamed Iran for interference of Saudi affairs. But Iran
foreign office strongly rejected the claim and called such allegation as a
‘diplomatic intervention’. Most notably Tehran becomes more vigilant
after Arab nominal revolution. She becomes more aggressive and limited
her foreign policy toward Shia countries like wise Syria and Lebanon.
Iran apparently change its relations toward Sunni dominated countries in
the region. On the other side Saudi makes more relations with Sunni
government of the region and openly declared ‘Limited relations with nonShia Regime’. Such foreign policy approaches by both responsible
countries could lead the region in a religious war. The entire Middle East
was at chaos and whether to join Saudi camp or to seek refuge under
Iranian umbrella. The rest of the region faced polarization, economic
down turning, social unrest, poor economic growth and raising petroleum
prices in the region. But Saudi and Iran could not realize the intensity of
insecurities and future repercussion. War was inevitable by irresponsible
foreign policy making of both and region could obviously left in an eternal
war.