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ID:
173546
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The Persian Gulf region’s major powers, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), have, at least since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, been engaged in a hegemonic rivalry over power and influence, marked by differences in sectarianism, nationalism, revolutionary ideology, competition over regional hegemony, oil prices, attitudes towards the US military presence in the Gulf, and towards the Hajj.
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ID:
173540
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The ideological and religious divisions, economic reasons and security concerns in the Sunni-Shia context is more like the competition for influence between Saudi Arabia and Egypt. While Egypt has lost its momentum Saudi Arabia has cultivated its ability to influence the neighbouring countries basically uniting them on religion. But the Muslim countries are not united to accept the leadership of either Iran or Saudi Arabia. Economic factors allied with religion determined the contours of diplomacy and proxy wars .But plummeting oil revenue coupled with the humanitarian crisis arising from the Covid-19 pandemic will adversely affect growth across the world with ripple effect on both the countries.
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ID:
173551
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Saudi Arabia and Iran have gone through many phases in the history of their relations: from a strategic alliance in the years before the 1979 Islamic Revolution to rivalry anddifferences on major regional issues in some earlier and recent issues and create new battlegrounds in recent years.
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ID:
173544
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Islam as a religion has largely been transformed into an international issue over last couple of decades or one may say in the post-cold war world. The East-West conflict, the major dynamics of which was capitalist versus communist in different parts of the world, has given way to Islam versus the rest in the post-cold war global order.
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ID:
173550
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Religious supremacy has been one of the most important factors in West Asia since the inception of Abrahamic religions. As each religion held its supremacy for a period in time, it gave rise to renaissance within the religion.
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ID:
173549
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Geopolitics in Middle East is dynamic and complex particularly because it intertwines ideological and religious matters with national and international structures so obsessively that itcreate chains of comforts and discomforts in both multilateral and bilateral relationships.
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ID:
173547
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The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the two arch rival powerhouses in the Middle East, characterized by mutual bickering, sinister wrangling and verbal duel in respect of their different religious sects: Shia and Sunni respectively, and other reasons have complicated relationship in the present international scenario.
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ID:
173553
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Middle East has been and continues to be a core strategic region for US owing to its huge geo-political significance. However, since the end of Cold War, there emerged a plethora of challenges complicating US’s influential role. Iran’s expanding footprint to carve out a ‘New Persia’ is also an unwelcome development for US.
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ID:
173543
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The rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia is the defining feature of strategic landscape of Middle East. Some may view it as Shia-Sunni fault line, some may view it desire for regional leadership or still other may view it as the outcome of the great powers politics in the resource rich region. The rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia is all this and even much more.
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ID:
173556
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West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region became the ground for the fierce struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran for regional hegemony. The significant cause for the conflict is the religious differences because Iran is mostly Shia Muslim while Saudi Arab considers itself as the leading power of the Sunni Muslim world.
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ID:
173555
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After more than a half century of false starts and unrealized potential, India is now emerging as the swing state in the global balance of power.
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ID:
173548
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The ideological rivalry between the Sunni led Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Shiite controlled Islamic Republic of Iran, which has taken shape into proxy wars from its earlier state of cold war in contemporary Middle East or West Asian region has not only been intensified tensions the already volatile region of Middle East, but also, catalyzed the race of Islamic Supremacy across globe.
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ID:
173552
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International politics is a struggle for power, prestige and influence. This generalization by realism theory of international relations is clearly depicted in the geopolitics of Islamic world mainly dominated by two oil powers namely Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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ID:
173554
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Afghanistan remains a battleground for geopolitical rivalries among actors from both within the region and beyond. The country has been a victim of proxy wars between both regional and extra-regional players since the time of the Cold war.
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ID:
173542
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A continuity in international relations and global security has been the prevalence of variables and determinants. Variables are intrinsic and dynamic, while determinants are central and reveal a relative flexibility when political and economic considerations mutate.
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ID:
173539
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The biggest problem and the hotspot, as well as ever so simmering conflict in the West Asian region remains the competition and rivalry for exerting influence both religious and geo-political between the arch enemies Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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ID:
173557
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Situated in the oil-rich and volatile Persian Gulf region, Iran and Saudi Arabia are two of the most important regional players, which are at loggerheads since the last several years. The importance of these two countries lies in the fact that stability in the wider West Asian region has begun to be determined by the nature of their relations.
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ID:
173545
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The power oil and the wealth it generated for both Saudi Arabia and Iran were to see themselves as the keepers of ‘their way of Islam’ are the ‘better one for all Muslims.’ Roughly the two ways evolved over time, each with their colour of Islam wanted the world to recognize them as supreme.
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ID:
173541
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All external powers beyond West Asia must extend their good offices by bringing both Iran and Saudi Arabia across the table for constructive talks and discussions, though both these nations are suffering the anguish and trauma of areason, paralogism, pre-occupied rationalities and self-alienation, devoid of sanity and Pure Consciousness, amidst mounting terrorism including global terrorism. That will obviously give them an opportunity to amicably sort out their mutual persisting differences and may pave the way towards establishing enduring peace and security between them and also in the whole West Asian region and in the world as well. And that may save the global humanity from the possible holocaust of a major armed conflict, already suffering the grave threat to its survival due to the expanding Corona virus threat, to success with firm conviction and assurance.
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