With an escalating logic almost built into the Syrian war, an inexperienced, belligerent and ambitious young royal in charge in Riyadh, a trigger-happy Erdogan shooting down Russian planes, and sectarianism as rampant as ever, the future of Saudi Arabia and the region is more unpredictable than it has been for a long time.
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Nach der Hinrichtung des schiitischen Klerikers Nimr al-Nimr sind die Beziehungen zwischen Saudi-Arabien und dem Iran auf einem Tiefpunkt angelangt. Nimrs Geschichte zeigt, wie beide Regimes eine Politik der konfessionellen Spaltung betreiben.
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The execution of Nimr al-Nimr has brought the Middle East to a boiling point. But his beliefs were more complicated than anyone will admit.
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The spread of extremist Islamist ideology is as much a result of Western foreign policy as of Saudi machinations.
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