Ok let's say buried pipelines under the sand , it's the ideal insulant against the relatively low power of suicide drones.

Haven't you seen the amount of sand they displaced for the foundations of "the Line" project?

Let's say dig a hole in the desert build the pipeline and then cover it with 15ft of sand that you previously excavated , can't be that hard for a country that is boasting about building a 1mi tall skyscraper and a 100mi long 1000ft tall Line , or a floating NEOM city

The exception is that this project would actually have positive ROI .

I agree that the point of arrival of the pipelines would present a vulnerabily but look at the map , Jeddah is about 1000mi from Iran coast.

That buys you a lot of time and a lot of opportunities to intercept the drones

> > extended war of oil infrastructure destruction.

My point was that ingenuity could be used to avoid oil infrastructure destruction , which is not desirable anyways.

Your point is to get there via drone MAD. I don't think Saudi and Iran can be trusted with MAD