# Saudi Arabia's Arab Leadership and the Challenge of Iranian Expansion

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118647220148830287
- Source account: [@x1KS1X](https://x.com/x1KS1X)
- Source language: Arabic
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:35
- Published: 2026-11-06
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wcfZmlHnNplv/en/saudi-arabia-s-arab-leadership-and-the-challenge-of-iranian-expansion
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wcfZmlHnNplv/en/saudi-arabia-s-arab-leadership-and-the-challenge-of-iranian-expansion) Saudi Arabia is being targeted because it is the center of Arab political power.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wcfZmlHnNplv/en/saudi-arabia-s-arab-leadership-and-the-challenge-of-iranian-expansion?t=5) And at this dangerous stage in history that we're going through, just as Cairo went through a period, and Baghdad went through a period.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wcfZmlHnNplv/en/saudi-arabia-s-arab-leadership-and-the-challenge-of-iranian-expansion?t=12) Now, Riyadh is leading the Arab world. So the arrows are aimed at it.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wcfZmlHnNplv/en/saudi-arabia-s-arab-leadership-and-the-challenge-of-iranian-expansion?t=16) Saudi Arabia is now the one representing Arab power.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wcfZmlHnNplv/en/saudi-arabia-s-arab-leadership-and-the-challenge-of-iranian-expansion?t=19) It is leading the Arab alliance against Iranian expansion.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wcfZmlHnNplv/en/saudi-arabia-s-arab-leadership-and-the-challenge-of-iranian-expansion?t=21) The entire burden rests on it. Instead of supporting and standing by it, we oppose it.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wcfZmlHnNplv/en/saudi-arabia-s-arab-leadership-and-the-challenge-of-iranian-expansion?t=26) If something were to happen to Saudi Arabia, God forbid, as happened to Iraq and Syria, the Arab East would never recover for two or three generations to come.