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Saudi Arabia
Index
Saudi leaders historically regarded both aggression and
externally supported subversion as potential threats to their
country's national security. Thus, their primary foreign policy
objective was to maintain political stability in the broader
Middle East area that surrounds the Arabian Peninsula. Their
principal concerns tended to focus on their two more populous and
more powerful neighbors, Iraq to the north and Iran across the
Persian Gulf. Since 1970, Saudi Arabia has perceived each of
these countries alternately as friend and foe, and the nature of
its relations with Iran and Iraq at any given time has influenced
the pattern of Saudi relations with other states.
Data as of December 1992
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