RIYADH: US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington alliance, with both seeing a common adversary in Iran and its “destabilizing” activities.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have a decades-old relationship based on the exchange of American security for Saudi oil.

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