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Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
2018 · 1 season · — · ★ 2.0
Bitter Rivals illuminates the essential history - and profound ripple effect - of Iran and Saudi Arabia's power struggle. It draws on scores of interviews with political, religious and military leaders, militia commanders, diplomats, and policy experts, painting American television's most comprehensive picture of a feud that has reshaped the Middle East.
Start from S1E1 · Part One
Official trailer
Episodes
E11. Part One
2018 · 1h 56m
Highlights the 40 year struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia for dominance in the Middle East, in part, on behalf the the Shite or Sunni factions of Islam.
E22. Part Two
2018 · 54m
Frontliine explores the postulate that the current turmoil in the Middle East, particularly in Syria Iraq and Yemen, is a primarily a manifestation of a forty year power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Cast
Ali Khamenei
Self
Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud
Self
Turki Al-Faisal
Self
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Self
Adel Al-Jubeir
Self
Bashar al-Assad
Self
Martin Smith