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Source: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/saudi-arabia-wants-roll-back-iran-17574?page=show
Saudi Arabia Wants to Roll Back Iran
(National Interest) Arash Reisinezhad - On July 9, former Saudi intelligence head Prince Turki bin Faisal attended a rally for the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq (MEK) and called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In March, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), which has not taken up arms for twenty years, engaged in bloody skirmishes with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in northwestern Iran. Tehran and Riyadh are backing different sides in Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Lebanon and Yemen.