Saudi Arabia's Great Gamble

The crown prince's goal is to cut Iran down to size and make it accept Saudi hegemony in the Persian Gulf.In 680 CE, less than fifty years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, an army of over thirty thousand men was deployed by thirty-three-year-old Umayyad Caliph Yazid to confront a tiny group of seventy-two people led by the prophet’s grandson, Hussein ibn Ali, who had challenged the legitimacy of the Umayyad hereditary rule as un-Islamic.In the resulting battle that took place in Karbal