I’m under the impression his debt is to the Saudi ‘Royals’ - Saudi Arabia, where the clerics rule the observation of sharia, and the perfumed princes spend the money. Shia is shia and sunni is sunni, never shall the twain meet...they shall for ever betray each other.
Everything you see is theatre.
It often seems that way, but an Iranian nuke would tip over the apple cart, wouldn’t it?