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Saudi Arabia has united with Israel against Iran – and a desert storm is brewing

11 November 2017

9:00 AM

11 November 2017

9:00 AM

Until last weekend, the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh’s exclusive Diplomatic Quarter was colloquially known as the Princes’ Hotel. It was a luxurious retreat from the heat, where royals could engage in the kind of wheeling and dealing with the global business elite that had made them millionaires on the back of the 1970s oil boom.

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