The cost of Iran’s regional leverage
- For more than two years, the 2023 Beijing-brokered agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran seemed to mark a shift in Gulf politics: Away from confrontation and towards managed coexistence.
- The agreement neither ended strategic rivalry nor sought to do so.
- Its significance was more limited but still consequential: It created political space for competition to be managed without repeatedly spilling into direct regional escalation.
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- For more than two years, the 2023 Beijing-brokered agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran seemed to mark a shift in Gulf politics: Away from confrontation and towards managed coexistence.
- The agreement neither ended strategic rivalry nor sought to do so.
- Its significance was more limited but still consequential: It created political space for competition to be managed without repeatedly spilling into direct regional escalation.
Sources: Al Jazeera