The Saudis could never reconcile themselves to the US-led invasion of
Iraq, not because it toppled Saddam Hussein but because it led to Shia
majority rule in an Arab country. When Hosni Mubarak was toppled by
Egypt’s popular revolt in 2011, Riyadh accused Mr Obama of betraying a
US ally. Saudi perceptions of US complacency in the face of Iran’s
advances in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen are a grievance far
outweighing western perceptions of Isis jihadism as the main threat in
and from the Middle East. After the Iraqi city of Mosul fell to a
lightning Isis offensive in 2014, even the late Prince Saud
al-Faisal, the respected Saudi foreign minister, remonstrated with John
Kerry, US secretary of state, that “Daesh [Isis] is our [Sunni] response
to your support for the Da’wa” — the Tehran-aligned Shia Islamist
ruling party of Iraq.
Source: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/04/saudi-foreign-minister-admits-saudis-created-isis.html
Source: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/04/saudi-foreign-minister-admits-saudis-created-isis.html