Turkey and Egypt: Towards a Normalization?
In these new circumstances, Iran’s expansion in the Middle East after the ‘Arab Spring’ had become Saudi Arabia’s priority.
What is Sectarian Politics?
It is generally accepted that the Middle Eastern countries, primarily Iran and Saudi Arabia, have developed sectarian reflexes toward the developments in the region and engage in so-called sectarian policies.
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Every side is using its energy to gain a bigger piece of the cake in northeast Syria, except for Iran.
Istanbul and Contemporary Islamic Art
One of the interesting developments in cinema over the last 25 years was the rise, critique and then canonization of the Iranian ‘New-Wave’.
Increasing Cooperation Between Ankara and Washington on the Syrian Issue: How About Revisiting the Safe Zone Idea?
to moderate forces in Syria from the inception of the crisis and did not abstain from providing support to both the Syrian regime and to its main supporters on the ground such as Iran and their non-state proxies including Hezbollah and others.
On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Ethnicity Regimes
So you can even see a parallel with Twelver Shiism as the glue of the post-Safavid Iranian identity.
The Geneva Talks and Syria in its Aftermath
The principle reason behind this failure was the unwillingness of the Russian-Iranian-Damascene axis to stop its offensive against the opposition and the disinclination these governments showed to diplomatic efforts to find a lasting solution to the crisis.
Russia in Syria
From the outset, Russia, along with China and Iran, sided with the Assad regime.
ISIL: Horror and Terror Revisited
ISIL is a reflection of the situation created by the United States and, later, by Iran in the region.
Turkey’s Settlement Process: Back to the Original Positions?
PKK leadership has two new block-partners in this new war: on the one hand, the Russians, the Iranians and the Assad regime through the PKK’s Syrian branch, the PYD, and, on the other, the military support of the US who saw the PYD as a substitute power for its own soldiers in the field war against IS.
Downing of the Russian Jet, the Syrian Civil War and Turkish-Russian Relations
However, with the Russian and the Iranian military, along with thousands of foreign fighters from Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon flooding to Syria to rescue the Assad regime, a military solution to the conflict seems unlikely in the near future.