Saudis Seen Stepping Up Proxy Skirmishes With Iran Across Region
- Prominent columnist Al Rashid writes in state-owned newspaper
- Rivalry between Saudi, Iran spans Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon
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Saudi Arabia, locked in a struggle for regional dominance with Iran, will have no choice but to create and strengthen militias in countries across the region, a prominent columnist wrote in a state-owned daily.
Direct military conflict with Iran is “something that no one wants’’ unless Iran launches a direct attack on Saudi Arabia, Abdulrahman Al Rashid wrote in the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. With that off the table, “countries will have no choice but to resort to proxies’’ to curb Iran’s influence, he wrote.