Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy conflict

Ongoing

• Suppression of Bahraini opposition demonstrators from 2011 until 2012, with GCC and Saudi support.
• US authorities foil an Iranian-backed plot to assassinate Adel al-Jubeir and attack the Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C.
• Iranian and Saudi involvement in the Syrian and Yemeni civil wars.
• Bombing of Iranian embassy in Lebanon by suspected Saudi Arabian agents.
• Formation of the Islamic Military Alliance on 15 December 2015.
• Execution of Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia.
• Attack on Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran and the consulate in Mashhad.
• Severing of diplomatic relations by Saudi Arabia on 3 January 2016
• On 4 January 2016 Bahraini government cut all diplomatic relations with Iran and expelled Iranian diplomats.
• Saudi Arabia and the UAE ban their citizens from visiting Lebanon and suspends military aid due to possible Iranian influence and Lebanon's refusal to condemn the attack on Saudi embassy.
• The Bahraini government revokes the citizenship of Shia cleric Isa Qassim on 20 June 2016.