[1024core]

Saudi Arabia is the Land of the Two Shrines. If you want to kick the hornet's nest (not just regular hornets, but Asian Murder Hornets), that is the way. You'll have 1.5B pissed off Muslims if the US does anything hostile against the Saudi Kingdom.

[newsclues]

But you can let Iran and Saudi alliances fight it out.

[1024core]

yes, you can definitely utilize the millennia-old Shia-Sunni conflict to knock the Saudis down a couple of notches. They have been busy solidifying a wall around Iran. Pakistan is, basically, their bitch. Pakistan and Saudis have an agreement, that should the Saudis need, the Pakistani nukes will be made available within a few hours. No wonder the Iranians want to develop nukes; the Saudis practically have them!