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Iran’s ascent in the Middle East aligns with the emerging multipolar order, where regional powers assert their influence, further diminishing the unipolar dominance of the United States. Iran’s actions illustrate a geopolitical transition from Western-commandeered structures to a more equitable global power dynamic.
The 12th “Middle East Conference” at the Valdai Club in Moscow offered a more than welcome cornucopia of views on interconnected troubles and tribulations affecting the region.
The Middle East will soon face a fractured Europe -- imposing new dilemmas for the region, on top of it having to navigate Beltway Foreign Policy constituencies slugging it out in Washington for primacy over Russia policy.
It is understandable for Middle Eastern states to stay aloof, as ‘bystanders’, but that does not mean that they will avoid becoming ‘road kill’ in this Euro-collision. They will.
Today, Iran is demonised as an intolerable threat to western global Order. But it was not always thus, Alastair Crooke writes.
The situation in the Middle East is changing rapidly. The recent unrest in Israel is growing like fire and entering into a dangerous zone.
Although most media outlets, including purely political resources, are currently writing about the coronavirus pandemic, geopolitical processes continue to run their course.
The geographical toponym Western Asia is used here instead of the colonial expression “Middle/Near East”, widely spread and used by everyone, as the consequence of brainwashing done by Western (European) and Anglo-American media, which became the regular and classical weapon of war.
The term dystopia was coined in the late nineteenth century by John Stuart Mill as opposed to the term eutopia or utopia used by Tomas Moro to designate an ideal place or society.
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