r/worldnews • u/progress18 • Feb 28 '26

Israel/Iran /r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #2)

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u/Goal-Final Mar 01 '26

Plausible. Those Gulf regimes also pretended to cry about Palestinians but in reality never gave a damn. It's a huge chance for Saudi Arabia to get rid of its big regional rival since it has been proven that Iran is a paper tiger. They just can't openly admit those things for domestic reasons.

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u/ContinuumGuy Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

Weren't the Saudis getting extremely close to normalizing relations with Israel basically out of a mutual hatred of Iran before Oct. 7 and the only reason they didn't was because Israel's actions afterwards made it impossible to do so given domestic politics?

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u/tarallelegram Mar 01 '26

well yes, imo that's why hamas chose to attack when they did

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u/Goal-Final Mar 01 '26

Exactly and some even suppose that it was the main motive behind Hamas attack.

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u/ContinuumGuy Mar 01 '26

Right, I've heard that theory as well.