Saudi-Israeli conspiracy? What Saudi-Israeli conspiracy?

"When American officials are asked to explain the country's largest weapons sale ever, including $100 billion-worth of arms to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, they mutter one word behind their hands.

Iran.  The justification for this colossal sale of firepower to governments with less than glorious records of behaviour towards their own people or their neighbours is that it will contain Iran's ambitions to be the dominant player in the Middle East sandpit."