The Nature of Logics Ruling Interactions of Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Yemen Crisis

Yemen crisis is one of the challenging issues in the Middle East which has been determined, so far, by regional and global powers. As two regional powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia are among the countries which has demonstrated opposite behaviors in this issue. Different approaches in decision making in these two countries has caused them to adopt a contrastive foreign policy toward their areas as a result of different subjective and objective interpretations. The current crisis in Yemen is among challenging domains between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Here, the controversy between the two concepts of Shiite's Islam and Wahhabi's islam have dragged the two countrie's relations towards a regional cold war. Therefore, the present study aims at analyzing and revising the contrast between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen's current crisis.