Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince called the Supreme Leader of Iran “the new Hitler of the Middle East” in an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday, sharply escalating the war of words between the arch-rivals. The Sunni Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Shi‘ite Iran back rival sides in wars and political crises throughout the region. We don’t want the new Hitler in Iran to repeat what happened in Europe in the Middle East,” the paper quoted him as saying. Hezbollah called the move an act of war engineered by Saudi authorities, an accusation they denied. The group launched a ballistic missile toward Riyadh’s main airport on November 4, which Saudi Arabis decried as an act of war by Tehran.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 24, 2017 07:41 UTC