Across the Gulf Iran speaks through the site Mashreg website accusing the royal family of Saudi Arabia drowning in corruption.
In Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen , Shiites and Sunnis or are at loggerheads or openly at war , we are talking about conflicts that cause the death of thousands of people every month .
In Syria, each accusing the other of responsibility, with Iran supporting Assad and Saudi Arabia , which finances the rebels seeking to overthrow it.
In this difficult situation the president Hassan Rouhani has promised to usher in a short period of "détente " not only between the two countries, but throughout the region .
"God willing I hope that during the next government will soon have good relations with its neighbors , in particular with Saudi Arabia " so Rouhani during a press conference.
From the point of view of Saudi Arabia improved relations would depend on the cessation of Iran's support for Assad . The Saudis regard Syria as a key link in order to project their influence throughout the Middle East as well as in Lebanon to the borders with Israel.
What irritates more Iran is the decision of Saudi Arabia, dating back to last year, to increase oil exports to compensate for that removed to the market because of the embargo of Iranian crude .
Saudi its part accuses Iran of stirring up trouble among its Shiite minority and attempting to assassinate its ambassador in Washington. Tehran denies all the accusations .
The antagonism dates back to 1979 when Iran tried to export the Shiite Islamic revolution throughout the Middle East, in Saudi Arabia thus threatening the old regional balance .
Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam and supporter of the Sunni school more conservative Wahhabism .
The Wahhabi school considers Shi'ism as a heretic .
King Abdullah has tried to moderate this vision and is committed to establish a center in Riyadh to study the differences between the sects.
From these issues must start to groped to understand what is happening today in Syria, where the situation has become so complex that the Islamic world has practically and for now hopelessly divided in half.
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