 Izvi zvakaita kuti pave nebasa guru reuto reSaudi kubvira pakapinda Iraq muKuwait muna 1990. Hurumende yeYemen, pamwe chete navaArab, vakapomera Iran mhosva yokurwisa maHuthis. Iran yakashoropodza zvikuru Saudi Arabia nokuda kwekupindira kwavo mukupandukira kweHouthi muYemen. Mutungamiri weIran panguva iyoyo Ahmadinejad akanokorwa mashoko achiti: Saudi Arabia yaitarisirwa kuyananisa mukukakavadzana kwemukati meYemen semukoma mukuru uye kudzorera runyararo kuhurumende yeMuslim, pane kutanga kurwisa kwemauto nekurova mabhomba pavanhu vechiMuslim kuchamhembe kweYemen, nepo gurukota rezvekunze kweSaudi Saud Al Faisal akapindura achipomera Iran kupindira munyaya dzemukati meYemen. Ahmadinejad akapfuurira mberi achiti: Dzimwe nyika dzokuMadokero dzakapinda munharaunda yacho Afghanistan neIraq pashure pokurwiswa kwaSeptember 11, apo nzvimbo huru yeAl-Qaeda yakanga iri mune imwe nyika munharaunda, iyo inofarira mari yakawanda yemafuta uye ukama hwakanaka neUnited States nenyika dzokuMadokero. Kune dzimwe nyika dziri muMiddle East dzisina kunyange sarudzo imwe chete, hadzibvumiri vakadzi kutyaira motokari, asi hurumende dzeAmerica nedzeEurope dziri kutsigira hurumende dzadzo dzisiri dzedemokrasi, achitaura nezveSaudi Arabia. Muna 2017 Muchinda weSaudi Mohammed bin Salman akadana mutungamiri mukuru weIran kuti Hitler mutsva. 