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The Missing Piece of the Middle East Chessboard: Russia

Read: Gaza Attack Shifts Russia-Israel Relations, Impacting Middle Eastern Geopolitics The USSR’s leading role in every crisis in the Middle East After the "Iranian crisis" of 1946, which sounded the first alarm bells of the First Cold War, the Soviet Union never shied away from taking part, and even playing a leading role, in every major development in the Middle East.