How Iran and Saudi Arabia's diplomatic breakthrough could impact the entire Middle East.
There are many questions about how much progress Saudi Arabia and Iran will actually make toward putting their long-standing grudge behind, but given both nations' heavy influence across the Middle East and wider Muslim world, the rapprochement could have a meaningful impact on a range of disputes and crises. "There are two types of common medicines, American medicine and Chinese medicine," Saudi political analyst Salman Al-Ansari told CBS News.
"So the kingdom [Saudi Arabia] decided to shift its direction to Chinese medicine," said al-Ansari."Will it succeed in preventing the 'cancer' of Iranian terrorism from spreading in the Middle East? Only time will tell.
"The fact that Iran and the Saudis now will again have a diplomatic relationship strengthens the Islamic regime, which is currently struggling with internal turmoil, a fully collapsed economy and full isolation from the rest of the world," Dr. Ardavan Khoshnood, an Iran foreign policy expert who teaches at two universities in Sweden, told CBS News."It does not, however, mean that all the obstacles between the two countries will be eliminated. Absolutely not.
"The obstacles between the countries will continue to exist, and we may also witness covert malign operations on both sides," he said.has always been seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Saudis lead the regional military coalition battling Yemen's Houthi rebel movement, which is backed by Iran.
"It would be a mistake to assume that a Saudi-Iran rapprochement will translate into ending the war in Yemen," Nadwa Al-Dawsari, a nonresident senior fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy, told CBS News."The Saudi goal now is to extricate itself from the Yemen mess that it contributed to."
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