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The speaker says Iran and Saudi Arabia fought three proxy or shadow wars in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
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The speaker says Iran and Saudi Arabia fought three proxy or shadow wars in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
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The speaker argues that Iran defeated Saudi Arabia in the Iraq proxy war by exploiting Iraq's Shia majority after the U.S. invasion, and also won the Syria proxy war by supporting Assad alongside Russia.
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The speaker says Qasem Soleimani was the second most powerful man in Iran after the supreme leader and was responsible for Iran's Iraq, Syria, and Yemen policies, making him Saudi Arabia's public enemy number one.
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"So for example, in Israel, there are two groups opposing Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah. And they're both financed and supported politically by Iran. And..."
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"...war, Iran defeated Saudi Arabia. Then they fought another war in Syria. Syria's leader, Assad, faced a rebellion. And Saudi Arabia, America, Israel support..."
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"...And it started in 2016. So, the wars in Iraq and Syria, they were important to Saudi Arabia, but they didn't really threaten Saudi..."
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"So, MBS was looking very good. But then, in 2018, he did something that scared the world. Okay? MBS had, was a visionary. He..."
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"...who was responsible for Iran's policies in the Iraq war, the Syria war, and in the Yemen war. So, from the perspective of Saudi..."
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"...Yemen, the Houthis, and of course, in Palestine, Hamas. And before, Syria was also part of their axis of resistance. But Syria has been..."
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"...the Euphrates in Iraq. And it covers part of Turkey, of Syria, of Lebanon, of Jordan, and parts of Saudi Arabia, which also includes..."
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"...important is that it also encompasses parts of Turkey, all of Syria, all of Jordan, all of Lebanon, and parts of Saudi Arabia. Okay...."
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"...region after the next. So you have Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela. It just never ends. The rhetoric is, the narratives are..."
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"...world and that's why you have these wars in libya and syria and venezuela and all that so i completely agree with um alex..."
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"...jihadists that then went to, you know, Chechnya and Dagestan and Syria and all over wherever they were needed."
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"...a while now. Yes. That, well, look who's the head of Syria right now, installed by Israel in the United States. It's the former..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran moved from religion and oil into proxy war, exposed the kingdom's fragile infrastructure, and made a Trump-led America the weapon Saudi...
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