Saudi Arabia's Strategic Policies in the Red Sea and Its Impact on the National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The Red Sea and its environs, which includes several countries in the Horn of Africa, are lately receiving increased global attention and many regional and global powers are seeking to expand and extension their presence and influence in this strategic place. Powerful states in the Middle East have also begun to compete for power in the Red Sea over the past few years. Along with historical competitions in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, today the Red Sea has become the third important center of competition. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia hastened to establish new regional arrangements in the Red Sea, which revealed the irreplaceable role and importance of the Red Sea in regional and trans-regional equations. The main purpose of this study is to analyze and identify the roots of Strategic policies of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea and its impact on the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The main question of the article is? What are Saudi Arabia's strategic priorities in the Red Sea? What is the impact of implementing these strategies on Iran's national security ? The balance of threats such as the Iran-Ansarollah and the Turkish axis - Qatar is the strategic priorities of Saudi Arabia for the Red Sea, in which the success of such policies can be associated with consequences such as reducing security and national authority and geopolitical constriction for Iran.