How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article asks whether sectarianism is the fundamental driver of the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, or whether other factors better explain their indirect confrontation across the Middle East. The author examines how the conflict manifests in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Qatar, traces the alliances that sustain it, and sets the historical origins of the Sunni Shia division alongside the geopolitical interests that revived it after
1979. The conclusion is that sectarian identity supplies the language of the rivalry while hegemonic competition supplies its…
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