Israel, Saudi seek to form united front

A senior Iranian expert in international relations says both Saudi Arabia and Israel seems to be facing major crises and seek to make some breathing room by embarking on an open normalization.

Sayyed Hadi Sayyed Afqahi was speaking to the Qods News Agency (Qodsna) in Tehran.

Afqahi said Saudi have already faced back to back failures in six major fronts in the region, namely the Iranian nuclear issue, Syrian war, Lebanese presidential case, Iraqi political developments, Bahraini repression and the war on Yemen.

“Saudi Arabia faces a critical situation geopolitically and strategically,” Afqahi said, adding the Saudi government also faces a crisis of legitimacy inside the country as well with a war of power becoming increasingly open in its corridors of politics.

On the other hand, the senior expert said, the regional anti-occupation resistance has increasingly grown powerful.

Israel too, Afqahi said, growingly faces problems including a faltering economy and reverse immigrations amid an ongoing wave of anti-occupation intifada.

“With these crises taken into consideration, both regimes would find themselves mutually in need of one another; they seek to form a united front against the expansion of the resistance front,” Sayyed Afqahi told Qodsna.

The senior analyst said Israelis seeks to present Iran as a primary threat in the region but to no avail to the moment.