The first reaction to the high tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran with the statement made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was from Turkey. The statement read: “Attacks against Saudi Arabia's foreign missions in Iran are unacceptable. The language of threat should be relinquished by returning to diplomatic language.”
It was also stated, “Turkey hopes the tensions between the two countries do not give rise to negative repercussions on regional security, stability and peace.”
Although Turkey's relationship with Saudi Arabia is much stronger, it almost showed a relatively unbiased attitude supporting peace. That was the way it should be. However it is not the only film we have seen in the Middle East.
The Iran-Iraq war that lasted from 1980 to 1988, just as it is today, after the defender of Shiism, Khamenei, came to power alone, the sectarian conflicts aggravated and its results were neither useful for the Shiites nor the Sunnis. With almost a million people dead on both side, the material damage was $150 billion and resulted in severe destruction in both countries.
The US administration was watching for a chance to take revenge on Iran then and was supporting Iraq openly just as it has been doing for Saudi Arabia today.
However, we can remember how the same Americans put the hangman's knot around Saddam Hussein's neck even in the morning of one Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice).
We do remember because the subject was the same, the plan was similar, only the actors were different.
The principle determining the attitude of Europe and the US in the Iran-Iraq war was the unacceptable existence of Iran's oil power.
Also, the US has never been happy with the ouster of the shah it supported and an Islamist regime's coming to power. Therefore Iraq was supported, Saddam was provided with weapons, a loan was given and, according to strong allegations, Iraq's biological and chemical weapons production was even assisted.
Eventually, the war brought destruction, its effects have been felt for years, with the attacks the two countries organized on each other's plants, oil production declined.
At the end of the war, in order to pay his debts, attacking Kuwait, Saddam tried to occupy the oil wells there in 1990.
This aggression dragged Iraq into isolation and was the beginning of Saddam's end.
In fact, the chaos in the Middle East today can be traced back to the Iran-Iraq war. The collapse of Iraq after Saddam and with the sectarian change of balance in favor of the Shiites, the beginning of the oppression of Sunnis, in a way, created suitable ground for the Daesh terror, which is as big a problem as the sectarian nuisance.
Today, in the guise of being a mediator in the region between the Saudis and Iranians, Russia can be trying to join the actors. The US may not be giving open support to any parties, the Saudis may have just reasons to be angry, like the Iranian mischief in Yemen, but no factor is changing the result.
A war that could break in the Middle East will not help the Middle East; rather, it will make it worse than it is today.
Today the Western countries which seem to be close to one of the parties because of their benefits will make a U-turn the moment their benefits require something else.
Once again the damage will be to the Muslims either from this sect or that group.
Finally, when the political struggle turns into a sectarian or religious conflict, a little spark can cause a big fire -- a fact that has been proven several times.
It is also obvious that this fact is the least considered reality in the region.
In this situation, what is on the part of the Islamic Alliance of which Turkey is a member, is blowing out the spark before it grows.
Despite the reckless imperial purposes of Iran, its injustice and ugly methods… Right away…
