... define the regime’s foreign policy as well as cooperation with the countries of the so-called Axis of Resistance that includes Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. This comes precisely as a result of the Decisive Storm, a foreign military operation launched nine ... ... chronic systemic disintegration that sparked direct armed clashes between its factions.
Mass popular demonstrations in support of Palestine in the IRG-controlled part of the country, which covers about 75% of its territory, were sporadic and less crowded. ...
... Washington and provide carrots to the Israeli government to make concessions to the Palestinians, ‘thanked’ Iran with economic sanctions and support for the Iranian opposition abroad under the slogan of dual containment.
To break from the isolation, the Iranians have changed their resistance to Israel from rhetoric to action. Indeed, Palestine became for Tehran the main door to penetrate Arab societies and spread its influence in the region by aiding Hamas in Palestine. By the same token, from 2004, the Arab Sunni elites started voicing their fear of a Shia crescent led by Iran in ...
... axis of resistance, it is possible to emphasize the possibility and ability of the axis of resistance to launch a comprehensive attack on Israel (and not just adopt a defensive policy), whether through a barrage of drones and missiles from all fronts (Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza), which will be accompanied by an attack electronic, such that the “Iron Dome” defense system is unable to fully confront such a large-scale attack capable of striking and disrupting air and naval bases, army ...
... 2019, two weeks before the Warsaw Conference on Security and Peace in the Middle East. They are wary of normalization between Arab states and Israel when it comes at the expense of Jordanian and Palestinian conflicts.
The changing shift of focus from Palestine to Iran burns Jordanian political cards. In the meantime, the King is trying to open channels with Arab countries, Tunisia, Iraq, Egypt, and Syria. He bids to strengthen Jordan’s relations with these four states, willing to build a regional bloc of four ...
... International Affairs Council as part of the project "Security System in the Middle East". This paper covers the issue of complex relations between Russia and Israel in the Middle East. The author analyzes in detail Russia’s role in the Israel-Syria-Iran triangle.
The degree of Iranian presence in Syria, the impact of the nuclear deal in the context of Israeli-Iranian regional confrontation, the role of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement in Russian-Israeli relations are also discussed in the paper....
... country (after Mecca and Medina), he is obviously wrong. Israel, and the United States in particular, have always underestimated the central place the Jerusalem issue takes in the eyes of Muslims. It is true that the Saudi Arabian rulers currently view Iran as a greater problem for themselves and the region than the Israel–Palestine conflict. However, the Saudi leader cannot possibly lose Jerusalem. James Dorsey, a well-known Singapore-based expert on the Middle East, believes that Mr. Trump’s recognition and any plan to grant Israel full control of Jerusalem would see ...
... from perfect, and have made some of my own disagreements with it quite vocally and publicly on matters from Syria to Israel/Palestine, among others. So I write this neither as an apologist nor as a hater, but as someone who has studied the Middle East ... ... terrible policies of local rulers, from Hosni Mubarak in Egypt to Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to (the recently departed) King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and also from the actions of a number of other foreign patrons, ...
... more likely than not to be right-wing, which means it will be still more difficult to achieve a compromise with Palestine and Israel’s position vis-á-vis Iran will harden. This is a serious challenge for Obama because balancing between Iran, Israel and Palestine is, by definition, an impossible task.
The interviewer was Maria Gurova, editor of the RIAC web site
... insisted that Iranian troops are fighting the opposition in Syrian territory
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. Sources also indicate Iranian weapons supplies to the Syrian army
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. Notably, Saudi Arabia was a key opponent to Iran’s invitation to the Montreux forum
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Iran and Palestine: Together Again
Another indicator Iran’s renewed vigor on the international stage seems to be its restored relationship with the Palestine national movement. Ties with the Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad were fractured after the ...
... partner.
The unprecedented intensity of Moscow’s contacts with Riyadh, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Ankara, Damascus, Cairo and Ramallah parallel with close interaction with Washington on practical aspects of the regional agenda, such as intra-Syrian talks, Palestine-Israel settlement and dialogue with Iran, are growing into a noticeable factor in the formation of the new image of the Middle East. This activity seems to offer palpable fruits, with the initial effects like arms deals and huge
energy projects
already at hand.
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