Investigating the reason for Iran's confrontation and how to interact in Iran-Saudi Arabia relations after the Mena incident

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Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd

10.22126/mps.2024.10620.1040

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Iran and Saudi Arabia have had ups and downs relations since the Islamic revolution. Although the trend of these relations has been towards tension, interaction and friendship can also be seen in the behavior of the two countries in short periods. Beyond the ideological confrontation between the two countries, both of which see themselves in the position of Dar al-Islam, the issue that appears to be important is the periodic events that have led the relations between the two countries to darkness, and one of these events is the Mena incident in 2014. It was in Saudi Arabia that pushed the tensions between the two countries to an all-out crisis, and we can still identify the shadow of this crisis after nearly a decade. What is the nature of the political gap between the two countries needs a serious pathology. The necessity of discussion and its importance lies in the fact that both countries are Muslim and their interaction can include the interests of Muslims and Islamic countries more than confrontation. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to find the root cause and how of the tensions between the two countries after the Mena incident. What is the reason for Iran's confrontation and how to interact in Iran-Saudi relations after the Mena incident? From the Mena incident to the year 1402 when the interaction between the two countries resumed, relations are considered fragile. Regarding the nature of these tensions, in this article we discussed the unresolved historical problems, the aggressive form of the Islamic Republic for Saudi Arabia and the Mena incident as a huge crisis. The Shiite place in foreign policy was mentioned in order to create interaction between the two countries.

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  • Receive Date: 14 May 2024
  • Revise Date: 11 June 2024
  • Accept Date: 13 June 2024

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