Abstract
Iran and Saudi Arab are two aggressive revivals in the region. After Arab spring the blame game between the reaches at peak. Each of both countries made accountable for Arab unrest. In the course of Middle East history both the rival began to find regional proxies and covert alliance and counter alliance turned the region into more insecure zone. Arab uprising marked the region change in the region. But Saudi kings tactically tackled the issue of internal eruption. In various time from 2011 to 2013 Riyadh blamed Iran for interference of Saudi affairs. But Iran foreign office strongly rejected the claim and called such allegation as a ‘diplomatic intervention’. Most notably Tehran becomes more vigilant after Arab nominal revolution. She becomes more aggressive and limited her foreign policy toward Shia countries like wise Syria and Lebanon. Iran apparently change its relations toward Sunni dominated countries in the region. On the other side Saudi makes more relations with Sunni government of the region and openly declared ‘Limited relations with nonShia Regime’. Such foreign policy approaches by both responsible countries could lead the region in a religious war. The entire Middle East was at chaos and whether to join Saudi camp or to seek refuge under Iranian umbrella. The rest of the region faced polarization, economic down turning, social unrest, poor economic growth and raising petroleum prices in the region. But Saudi and Iran could not realize the intensity of insecurities and future repercussion. War was inevitable by irresponsible foreign policy making of both and region could obviously left in an eternal war.

Abdul Rasool, Abdul Qadir. (2017) Iran Foreign Policy toward Saudi Arabia Aftermath of Arab Uprising, Pakistan Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1.
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