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Iranians attack the Saudi embassy in Tehran after executing Saudi Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimar al-Nimar. Diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran came to a complete standstill in 2016. Behind that war was a conflict of religious ideology and political interests. It can be said that Iran and Saudi Arabia are involved in the Cold War just like the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Saudi Arabia has been embroiled in a series of shadow wars to reduce its influence. Since the start of the Arab Spring in 2011, Iran’s influence in the region has grown. When the Bush administration launched its invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iran’s influence in Shiite-majority Iraq continued to grow. But they didn’t get much of an advantage. After Khomeini’s death, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatemi tried to mend fences again. After that, as long as Khomeini was alive, Saudi Arabia’s relations with Iran were bad. Saddam Hussein later invaded Iran with US support and Saudi financial support. After this announcement, naturally the Arab rulers went against Iran. During the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the ouster of Western-backed rulers from the Middle East.
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But when a revolution was organized in Iran in 1979 and the Islamic Republic of Iran was established by overthrowing the Shah, Iran’s relations with the West as well as with Saudi Arabia deteriorated. That is why there was not much of a problem between them.
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This is because the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Iran at the time were Western-backed. Business trade between the two countries was normal. The Safavids of Persia have been at war with the Ottomans for a long time, However, after the fall of the Ottomans, when the Middle East was divided like monkey bread, the newly created Saudi Arabia did not have much of a problem with Iran. Historically, Shia-dominated Iran was opposed to the Ottoman Empire. This means that the rivalry between the two countries is slowly normalizing. The report also mentions the name of Saudi Arabia. Iran recently released a report on trade with neighboring countries over the past six months. But trade between Iran and the two countries was zero from last fiscal year until March 20 this year. Although there has been no diplomatic relationship between the two countries since 2016, trade relations have been tense. Trade relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have already begun to move. The results of that discussion are finally being seen. The two countries sat at the negotiating table shortly after Biden came to power. Eventually the ice-cold relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia began to melt.