Saudi Arabia will likely respond to Iran’s historic nuclear agreement by using its two primary policy instruments: oil and religion, according to Zubair Iqbal, an expert from Washington-based Middle East Institute on Thursday.

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Geneive Abdo, an expert from the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institute and in the Middle East program at the Stimson Center in Washington said that the agreement will lead to more sectarianism and added that Sunni societies are very alarmed by Iran’s growing power in the region and this will only alarm them further.

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