Iran Plays on Mounting Tension in Saudi Arabia

By James M. Dorsey

This article is also available on the MEI Blog: www.mei.nus.edu.sg.

Tension over Saudi Arabia’s handling of a visiting Iranian soccer team and the brief arrest in the kingdom of a prominent Shiite cleric have sparked a Saudi-Iranian war of words with Iran warning against a crackdown on Saudi Shiite protesters demanding reform in the ki…