Investigating the effect of geopolitical interests in creating regional challenges in Southwest Asia; Case study: Iran and Saudi Arabia

Two countries that are striving for the first position in the same region will not have any kind of friendly relationship with each other. The relationship between these two countries will be subject to a kind of sustainable competition, which will continue in the direction of helping other countries in the region, challenging each other and supporting smaller countries and groups to stabilize the regional situation. Competition between the countries of a region is a widespread phenomenon in the world, but the action between the claimant countries depends on the type and number of contested cases and how they are viewed. Currently, the interaction between the two countries of Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Southwest Asia region is going through a tense competition, which has spread to other countries in the region and has created tensions in this part of the world. This research has studied the geopolitical interests of Iran and Saudi Arabia in Southwest Asia with a descriptive and analytical method. The method of collecting the required data and information is library and documentary and by referring to relevant references. The results of the research show that the actions of the two countries Iran and Saudi Arabia in Southwest Asia are influenced by various variables such as historical-cultural background, ideological competition, conflicting political structure, religious and religious rivalries, aligned ethnic and religious groups in opposite countries and action. It is political at the transregional level. Each of these factors is a part of the geopolitical interests of Iran and Saudi Arabia, and these geopolitical interests are influential in producing the regional challenge and its stability.