On Thursday, December 8, 2016, Britain’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson, in a video, accused Saudi Arabia and Iran of “puppeteering” and engaging in “proxy wars” in the Middle East.

In the video, Johnson told a conference in Rome last week it was a “tragedy” that politicians in the region were “twisting and abusing religion” to advance their political objectives. He further said the reason for puppeteering and proxy wars were the absence of big characters that are willing to reach out beyond their Sunni or Shia group.

“There are politicians who are twisting and abusing religion and different strains of the same religion in order to further their own political objectives. That’s one of the biggest political problems in the whole region. And the tragedy for me — and that’s why you have these proxy wars being fought the whole time in that area — is that there’s not strong enough leadership in the countries themselves,” Johnson told the Med 2 conference.

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