I was too quick when posting my message without actually writing what I wanted to write. My fault.
Here is what I wrote, which you did not quote and thus might have missed. Posting it again.
"If UAE is behind this, I am happy about this as this means that their project in Sudan (RSF) will be defeated and everywhere else in the region. They really don't want to make KSA into an enemy. If they truly do that, they will lose everything in the region and return to their size. Frankly speaking, given their overtones to the Zionist (whole Abraham nonsense), very negative role in Sudan and earlier Libya, as well as general foreign policy, KSA will have the support of most of the region.
Recente KSA-Qatar meetings (high level, between leadership, intelligence service and foreign ministers) several days in a row is not a coincidence.
And there are elements within the STC, leadership included, that are unfortunately, most likely, supported by the Zionists.
Personally I have no animosity towards the Emirati people, they are our brothers and sisters, but their foreign policy in the last 5-8 years, has been shocking to me on many fronts and it is time to call it out despite this being uncomfortable, as they were always, largely, a friendly state and neighbor and fellow GCC/Arab state. I don't want confrontation with any Arab state, if this can be avoided but their recent policies, as I wrote, are highly destructive for the region.
It is the same goal of fragmenting Arab nations that UAE has been supporting in Sudan, Libya and now Yemen."
No need for chestbeating and dickmeasuring contest. By your own accord, UAE is the new regional troublemaker (which I agree with).
What is to stop Iran and KSA working together to curb their malign and destructive influence?
I think KSA and Iran should bury some hatchets and recognize there are areas of mutual interest, concerns and cooperation.
No such thing from my part, just writing it as it is. UAE due to their limited geography (they do not border any country directly outside of KSA and Oman), tiny native/local/citizens population (just 1.3 million people), cannot challenge KSA long-term in Yemen or anywhere else for that matter. There is a limit to how many proxies you can successfully support across this large geography (Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen etc.), what just money alone can do etc. I predict, and I have said it in other threads, that they will eventually learn it the hard way and be forced to revisit some of their policies. Exactly like Qatar was forced to do after the 2017 blockade.
As for Iran, frankly 46 years of distrust and often big political differences and proxy wars is not going to be solved overnight.
At the same time there is amble opportunity for cooperation in areas of the region where we seem to agree or can reach a consensus. Seems to be the case in Sudan for instance.
Trust building mechanism, step by step, need to take place for at least 5-10 years before this relationship can grow because there is too much "bad blood" since 1979, for it to suddenly completely change.
What is your view of this, not to derail this thread, maybe a separate thread need to be created? Sadly there are no Saudi Arabian users around on PDF anymore, other than me (from what I am aware of) but if there were more of us, maybe some kind of dialogue could take place. Seen it on Twitter and Reddit but those are much larger forums.
Anyway, as I wrote many times before, KSA is focused on internal development (giga and mega projects, tourism, industrial and technological development, military, economic, Asian Games, Asian Winter Games, EXPO, World Cup hosting, numerous international sporting and entertainment events, Makkah and Madinah expansion, trade, defusing regional conflicts - see Sudan, Libya, Palestine etc.). In other words, after Vision 2030 and the social, economic etc. reforms, foreign policies have changed a lot.
Also Israel is now seen as the biggest troublemaker from the perspective of KSA and most Arab states. Prince Turki bin Faisal said it just recently during the Doha Forum a few days ago.
But yes, KSA-Iran cooperation has a big potential indeed, never denied this, nor was I against it. Millenia old ties with Southern Iran, Arab-Iranian community, cultural, linguistic, religious, ancestral/DNA ties, neighbors, big economic potential and most Saudi Arabians and Iranians, when they interact, get along very well unlike what most outsiders would think. My problem was always with certain Iranian government policies in the Arab world. Which I believe that you are already well, aware of, lol. I like most Saudi Arabians, don't hate Iran or Iranians, unlike the many anti-Arab, anti-Muslim Iranians (who have likely never met any Saudi Arabians or Arabs in their lives), unless we are met with hostility but of course you have a minority of Saudi Arabians and Arabs who dislike Iranians for being Iranians but those people are very rare. Most Saudi Arabians have little knowledge or interaction with Iranians due to events since 1979 and mostly only in Makkah, Madinah or in UAE ironically. Or the West.
But I found it telling that the most viewed video by Mister Taster (probably the most famous Iranian Youtuber - food stuff) was his videos in KSA.
