article_snippet.sent: The voices of hardline figures in Tehran have been the most agitated.
article_snippet.sent: Beware of the day when firecrackers explode in Riyadh," Purdastan said, in a not-so-subtle warning.
article_snippet.sent: But whether The Egyptians and the Jordanians will go through with it is another matter.
article_snippet.sent: Egypt has a long list of problems of Egypt own, including a bloody counter-terrorism campaign in Sinai that Egypt cannot afford to lose, but also an eastern border with lawless Libya that is increasingly a new front in Cairo's fight against jihadists.
article_snippet.sent: These hard realities leave Riyadh with two options.
article_snippet.sent: That is scenario that is very hard to contemplate.
article_snippet.sent: The Iranians too are faced with stark choices.