The Middle East is full of hard-to-understand codes: Hamas, Hezbollah, chiíes, suníes, judíos, israelíes, palestinos, emires, reyes, ayatólas…
All mixed with oil, generational and religious hatred, strategic interests and infoxicación massive, dejan terrible cocktail.
Iran, for its part, attacked all the Arab states neighboring Israel, amenazando with a regional war that cannot be achieved.
This rise, whether we create it or not, is not of recent origin, nor is it centered in Tehran or Jerusalem.
A century ago, the successes of Sykes-Picott and Sevres, both adopted at the end of the First World War after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, leave the middle east map until now.
Donald Trump and Mohammed Bin Salman at the November 2025 Saudi Arabia Reversal Forum in Washington.
The Venetian powers actually contemplated the creation of three states in the area: a Christian one in Lebanon, a Jewish one in Israel, and a large Arab state in the rest with its capital in Damascus.
Since the embargo, the UK and France have divided the area as ordered.
Borders were discussed between the mandates and Western institutions were exported, located in the area where the Ottoman Empire had ruled for five years.
With the exception of Israel, the rest of the countries in the region were ruled by dictatorial leadersviolent and corrupt. They also arose from a huge oil balsa at a time when the world economy was growing on this fuel.
As reported Daniel Neppprofessor University of Georgetown, new states arose over the rest of the Ottoman Empire without social, economic, political, cultural or religious harmony.
Internal cohesion was determined by the repression and control of authoritarian regimes.
The corruption and repression of these people, among the majority of the laity and the socialist orbit, encouraged the fact that the social masses took advantage of the protection offered by Islamist groups and organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
At the same time, in 1979, Iran, which was ruled by the Sha Reza Pahlavithe Islamic Revolution won and the Islamic Republic of Iran was established.
For fifty years, this regime not only survived the economic sanctions of Western Islam, until it managed to create the nickname “eje de resist”, a large increase in the Middle East, formed by Syria in AssadHezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen and the Shiites in Iraq.
“The corruption and repression of states created by the IGM in the Middle East encouraged the fact that the masses were emboldened by the protection of Islamist organizations”
This element of resistance not only seeks the end of Israel, but also revises the hegemony in the Middle East and works against the Arab countries of the Sun, such as Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates.
Entering the 21st century, the 11th century saw the expansion of radical Islam, the disastrous North American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab Spring protests. the EU has decided to leave the Middle East.
They did this to some degree of balance between the Sunni countries and Israel on the one hand and Iran and its allies on the other.
Without an embargo, there are no power vacancies in geopolitics. Yes, when one power goes, another comes. In this case, Russia.
These three actors, Russia, Syria and Iran and above proxythey formed a solid block that favored the construction of a large rise that from Tehran to Beirut.
This phrase is attributed to a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (the actual body of the Iranian elite) Qassem Soleimanian authentic feint to this expansion strategy for the Middle East: “Iran controls four Arab capitals: Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, and San’a”.
Today, after the terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the situation is quite the opposite.
Soleimani is dead.
Ali Khamenei is dead.
Hasan Nasrallah He is dead and Hezbollah is dead.
Yahia Sinwar AND Ismail Haniyeh Están Muertos.
A group of Iranians supports the withdrawal of General Soleimani and calls for the destruction of Israel by 2023.
Reuters
Hamas is on the verge of disappearing and Gaza is devastated.
Assad is in exile in Russia.
A part of the Israeli Air Force attacked the huts.
Moscow could not help any of its allies in the region. To anyone.
And in these moments, Israeli and American citizens are looking back at the Iranian sky.
Dealing with the Iranian regime is not just about fighting Israel and the EU’s main enemy in the region. It is a reconfiguration of the Middle East that places a falsified map between the insights of Sykes-Picott and Sevres.
Reconfiguration is difficult nation building de los neoconservatives Americans, criticized by themselves Donald Trump. And adopt a more Westphalian emphasis: everyone in this area has my nicknames, and everyone has what they want within their borders.
Similarity, the launch of massive operations in Iran in less than a year is not only aimed at the nuclear program and ballistic missiles.
Also wanted send a message to the most powerful (like Russia and China) over the undisputed military and technological strength of both countries.
Indeed, the Middle East is not easy to understand.
*** Elías Cohen is Professor of International Relations at the University of Francisco de Vitoria.
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