These countries are almost half a century in a state of religious "Cold War", comparable to the confrontation between the US and the USSR, 360tv. According to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, the transition of the war to a hot phase can not be averted, unless the international community dares to increase pressure on Iran, whose regime needs to be restrained economically and politically, a representative of the authoritarian regime. Saudi Arabia has always been an irreconcilable opponent of the treaty of Western countries and Iran concluded in 2015 on the latter's nuclear program - according to it, all nuclear capacities Iran should use exclusively for peaceful purposes in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. In Riyadh, they believe that sanctions must be returned, otherwise Iran will necessarily get into a fight with Saudi Arabia and drown the entire region in the blood. Prince Mohammed, who since 2016 with the blessing of King Salman de facto controls all the important processes in the kingdom, has increased the confrontation with Iran to openly hostile levels: almost completely cut off diplomatic contact with Tehran and forced the same Saudi-dependent countries of the Middle East and Africa. "We must succeed [in containing Iran] in order to avoid a military conflict. If we do not succeed in what we are trying to do, in 10-15 years we will face a war with Iran, "said Mohammed bin Salman. It is noted that the influence of Iran since the lifting of sanctions from him really increased:

in Iraq, the Shia militia controlled by him played an important role in defeating the Islamic state and Iraqi Kurds who tried to create an independent state, while in Syria the Iranian elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - one of the main pillars of the army Bashar Assad. Political scientist Iqbal Dyurre believes that if such a war started today, then on the side of Saudi Arabia the Americans, Israel, Egypt and the majority of the Sunni world would act unequivocally, except Qatar, against which, under the orders of Saudi Arabia, all Arab countries of the Persian Gulf. Iran could only support Russia.