'New Hitler' in Iran should not repeat what happened in Europe: Saudi?Crown?Prince Salman
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Saudi?Arabia's powerful?Crown?Prince?called the Supreme?Leader?of?Iran?"the new Hitler of the Middle East" in an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday, sharply escalating the war of words between the arch-rivals
SaudiArabia's powerfulCrownPrincecalled the SupremeLeaderofIran"the new Hitler of the Middle East" in an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday, sharply escalating the war of words between the arch-rivals.
The Sunni Muslim kingdom ofSaudiArabia and Shi'iteIranback rival sides in wars and political crises throughout the region.
Mohammed bin Salman, who is alsoSaudidefence minister in the US-allied oil giant kingdom, suggested the Islamic Republic's alleged expansion under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei needed to be confronted.
"But we learned from Europe that appeasement doesn't work. We don't want the new Hitler inIran to repeat what happened in Europe in the Middle East," the paper quoted him as saying.
Tensions soared this month when Lebanon'sSaudi-allied Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned in a television broadcast from Riyadh, citing the influence ofIran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon and risks to his life.
Hezbollah called the move an act of war engineered bySaudiauthorities, an accusation they denied.
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Hariri has since suspended his resignation.
SaudiArabia has launched thousands of air strikes in a 2-1/2-year-old war in neighbouring Yemen to defeat theIranian-aligned Houthi movement that seized broad swaths of the country.
Salman told the Times that the war was going in its favour and that its allies controlled 85 percent of Yemen's territory.
The Houthis, however, still retain the main population centres despite the war effort by aSaudi-led military coalition which receives intelligence and refuelling for its warplanes by the United States. Some 10,000 people have died in the conflict.
The group launched a ballistic missile toward Riyadh's main airport on Nov. 4, whichSaudiArabis decried as an act of war by Tehran.
Bin Salman said in May that the kingdom would make sure any future struggle between the two countries "is waged inIran".
For his part, Khamenei has referred to the House of Saud as an "accursed tree", andIranian officials have accused the kingdom of spreading terrorism.