Bad idea! Iran has three times as many people as Saudi Arabia. It would turn out like when Japan attacked the United States.
Not if he can clap his hands and bid his blue eyed slaves to do his warfare for him.
Bad idea! Iran has three times as many people as Saudi Arabia.
Iran has also recruited militias from other Shi’te populations to fight for them. Like Hizbollah in Lebanon, they have several in Iraq, as well as Foreign Legion-like militias of Afghan and Pakistani Shi’ites fighting for them in Syria, and the Houthis in Yemen.
In turn, the Saudis have a smattering of foreign Sunnis fighting for them in Yemen, but have historically wielded the large Egyptian and Turkish Armies as their Sunni surrogates (the Turks are no longer on board) - as well as the Superpower American Trump card.
In the case of Iran, Saudi ally Pakistan shares a border with Iran, and could pose a formidable military threat.
The joke has long been that if Saudi Arabia decided to go to war, the big question would be who get’s the contract. Looks like Israel is now under consideration by the Saudis, to take on a war for them.