The Sunni Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran back rival sides in wars and political crises throughout the region. Mohammed bin Salman, who is also Saudi defense minister in the US-allied oil giant kingdom, suggested the Islamic Republic’s alleged expansion under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei needed to be confronted. 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. Bin Salman said in May that the kingdom would make sure any future struggle between the two countries “is waged in Iran”.

Source: bd News24 November 24, 2017 11:37 UTC