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Middle East
What’s Really Behind the Saudi-Iran Clash?
IT’S SHOWDOWN TIME
A provocative beheading in Saudi Arabia and a choreographed sacking of the embassy in Iran are the latest symptoms of a pathology with potential global consequences.
David Patrikarakos
Published
Jan. 11 2016
12:01AM EST
Toby Melville/Reuters
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