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Saudi Arabia benefits just as much, if not more, from a diminished Iran.

• elcritch 2mo ago
  Not just Saudi Arabia but the UAE, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt, and Gaza. Iran has funded terrorism and religious extremism in the region leading to massive death tolls in many of them. Not to mention Iranians themselves.
  • elendilm 2mo ago
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    • elcritch 2mo ago
      > Tell me who funded ISIS. Oil funds predominantly along with theft and ransoms according to the EU near ISIS's peak [1]. This was while the US was still directly fighting ISIS in Afghanistan and Iraq. 1: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/603835/EXPO_IDA(2017)603835_EN.pdf https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/6038...
      • ifwinterco 2mo ago
        Iran was fighting them though, the Shia leadership of Iran have absolutely no time for Salafism. You need to be a bit more specific with exactly what you mean by “religious” extremism, you seem to be conflating things that are in many ways opposite