The historic tensions between Turkey, the Syrian Republic, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran and Egypt need some sort of amelioration, perhaps the Saudis can help you guys out on the diplomatic and trading front?

Oh! just not yet, remember that event between the Saudis and that journalist, Jamal Khashoggi? Istanbul? No good walking on hot coals just yet !

Turkey, the Syrian Republic, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran and Egypt need some sort of amelioration. Remember BT the Sunni v's Shia conflict? There is still polarisation there! A difference in 'ideology'. Perhaps to keep watch out on any corridor, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran? A land corridor through Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to any significant extent to the Mediterranean,? Iran’s strategy aims to weaken Arab states that are friendly to the United States and other Western nations. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is perpetuating a sectarian civil war that is the fundamental cause of the humanitarian and political catastrophe across the region.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is perpetuating a sectarian civil war that is the fundamental cause of the humanitarian and political catastrophe across the region. It is the fear of Iran’s Shiite proxy armies that allows jihadist terrorist organizations to portray themselves as patrons and protectors of beleaguered Sunni communities. The cycle of sectarian violence allows Iran to export its ideology and apply the Hezbollah model broadly in the region. Iran wants weak governments in the region that are dependent on the Islamic Republic for support. The IRGC grows militias like Hezbollah in Lebanon that lie outside those governments’ control, which Iran can use to coerce those governments into supporting Iran’s designs in the region and reducing U.S. influence. Iran has that coercive power in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.
The research reveals Iran’s determination to become the dominant power in the Middle East. That determination is based in an ideology that blends Marxism with Shiite millenarianism and imagines a world without the West. The true believers in the Islamic Revolution, from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the leaders of the IRGC, are in charge in Iran.