This was in response to some guy who was saying Arabs we living in Yemen.. he couldn't be more wrong:
The
Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from
Mesopotamia in the east to the
Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, in north-western Arabia, and in the
Sinai peninsula. Arabic is classified as a
macrolanguage comprising 30 modern varieties, including its standard form (
Modern Standard Arabic)
During the
Middle Ages, Literary Arabic was a major vehicle of culture in Europe, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. As a result, many European languages have also
borrowed many words from it. Arabic influence, mainly in vocabulary, is seen in
European languages.
Arabic has influenced many languages around the globe throughout its history. Some of the most influenced languages are
Persian,
Turkish, Spanish,
Maltese, Urdu,
Kashmiri,
Kurdish,
Bosnian,
Kazakh,
Bengali,
Hindi,
Malay,
Maldivian,
Indonesian,
Pashto,
Punjabi,
Tagalog,
Sindhi and
Hausa and some languages in parts of Africa. Conversely, Arabic has borrowed words from other languages including Greek and Persian in
medieval times, and contemporary European languages such as English and
French in modern times.
Arabia boasted a wide variety of Semitic languages in antiquity. In the southwest, various
Central Semitic languages both belonging to and outside of the
Ancient South Arabian family
Beginning in the 1st century CE, fragments of Northern Old Arabic are attested in the Nabataean script across northern Arabia. By the 4th century CE, the Nabataean Aramaic writing system had come to express varieties of Arabic other than that of the Nabataeans.
The most important sources of borrowings into (pre-Islamic) Arabic are from the related (Semitic) languages
Aramaic,
[31] which used to be the principal, international language of communication throughout the ancient Near and Middle East
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic
Now on topic.. there is no comparison in military expenditure between Iran and Saudi Arabia.. Iran even with the small budget is arming others and very restricted in foreign weapon systems.. You can only try to imagine what KSA has in its weapons store with that huge budget..