Iran has a standing army of 2.5 million vs Saudi Arabia at 250 thousand.
Iran has forbidden it’s citizens from traveling to Saudi Arabia, performing the hadj, the pilgrimage to Meccas.
Iran is actively promoting Karbala in Iraq as the appropriate place to pilgamage.
If you know your history, Shia-Sunni strife was forged at the Battle of Karbala.
Saudi Arabia is in big trouble!
Bahrain? Bahrain is 90% Shia ruled by a Sunni super minority. Start packing!
B0 is up to his ears with the Saudis.
Look out.
Saudi could be gone in a flash and the moehammedan world will turn its loving eyes to the strong horse.
Meet the new caliphate.
Saudi Arabia has to keep the waterways open, in which it has many potential allies, none of whom want the waterways controlled by Iran. It doesn’t have to conquer Iran, just fend it off. Iran, however, has to occupy and control strategic land all along the waterway, and may have to conquer the Arabian peninsula, Iraq...