al jazeera's senior political analyst, marwan beshara, says the rapprochement between saudi and iran seems to be working well so far. it's proved to be quite successful thus far. certainly the skeptics has proven to be wrong on this. and clearly there is two important pillars to this rapprochement between the iran and riyadh. one is necessity, the necessity to end the zero-sum game, to end the bleeding between the two countries, and certainly end the damage that the two countries' polarisation have done to themselves and to the region. and there is the desire to move on, to move forward towards something a bit more lucrative, if you will, for both countries to improve their standing in the region that has not really happened for them when a cold war between the two has paralysed the economies of both saudi arabia and iran, as well as a number of other countries in the region. so all in all, you can say that this is a really good deal just for stopping the damage that both countries have done to both countries, as well as to a number of countries in the region like yemen, like iraq, l