How hot will the Saudi-Iran conflict get?
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.2 • 898 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Saudi Arabia executes a cleric who is a member of the Saudi Shi’ite minority. Iran’s government, which sees itself as the leader of the Shi’ite world, doesn’t work very hard to stop an attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran that follows the execution. Saudi Arabia closes its embassy and tensions between the two nations, which had been growing for years, hit a new high. With hot wars in Yemen and Syria, billions of dollars sloshing around between governments and militias and militant groups, its a good time to look at what’s really going on and what’s likely to happen next.
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| 0:20.3 | The reality is the old order in the Middle East where the United States was a guarantor of certain countries. |
| 0:26.0 | It's died because the fact that it was not sustainable beforehand, |
| 0:29.0 | regardless if it suited people's preferences, it just was fractious and it was not going to work. |
| 0:34.0 | Saudi Arabia and it was vying for influence in the Middle East and beyond. |
| 0:47.0 | There are many ways to look at the conflict, a religious rivalry, a political struggle, or simply an economic one. This week on war college |
| 0:56.2 | we speak with an expert on the region who explains that none of the popular |
| 1:00.5 | narratives are exactly right. He also helps us look ahead at what's |
| 1:05.4 | likely to be the next phase of the battle. |
| 1:09.4 | You're listening to War College, a weekly discussion of a world in conflict focusing on the |
| 1:17.8 | stories behind the front lines. |
| 1:20.5 | Here's your host, Jason Fields. |
| 1:23.0 | Hello and welcome to War College. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm Reuters opinion editor Jason Fields. |
| 1:31.0 | And I'm Matthew Gault, contributing editor with Wars Boring. |
| 1:34.0 | Today we're talking with journalist Martaza Hussein about Saudi Arabia and its recent diplomatic |
| 1:39.7 | split with Iran. Martaza, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:44.2 | Thank you very much for having me. |
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