Iran Relations: One of Saudi Arabia's Many Problems
Bloomberg Businessweek|January 11 - January 17, 2016

The setback in relations with Iran is just one of Saudi Arabia’s many problems.

Matthew Philips, with Vivian Nereim
Iran Relations: One of Saudi Arabia's Many Problems

“They’re surprised when people have a negative reaction”

The collapse in Saudi relations with Iran after the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric marks a grim start to the new year for Saudi Arabia’s King Salman. Since succeeding his half-brother, Abdullah, who died in January 2015, the 80-year-old Salman has gone to war in Yemen, faced Islamic State-backed suicide bomb attacks inside his borders, and watched rival Iran sign an historic nuclear accord brokered by the U.S., the kingdom’s strongest ally for the past 50 years. Crude oil, the lifeblood of the Saudi economy, has remained cheap, depriving the country of billions in revenue.

On Dec. 28 the Saudi finance ministry announced big spending cuts for 2016. According to Luay al-Kahtteeb,a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Doha Center in Qatar, one item that did increase was military spending, rising to 25 percent of the budget (vs. 18 percent in the U.S.). A week later, the kingdom executed 47 prisoners it labeled terrorists, including the Saudi Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr. Days later, Saudi Arabia’s already strained relations with predominantly Shiite Iran were in tatters. After protesters set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran, the kingdom cut relations with the Islamic Republic.

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