“Saudi Arabia is surrounded on every side by Iranian-backed or national Iranian military forces.”
More than surrounded, the Shia minority within Saudi Arabia live along the Persian Gulf, in and among the most productive oil fields. (20% of the worlds proven oil reserves.) And, adjacent to Southern Iraq, which is majority Shia.
Time for Saudi Arabla to use the billions in U.S. military equipment to make a statement. I suspect that the nation of pampered Sheik’s doesn’t have the stomach for a fight.