- Iranians holding Ashura mourning for Imam Hussein
- Third step: Iran officially informs EU of plan to expand nuclear R&D
- Iran expands nuclear R&D program: Rouhani
- Iran goes ahead in space tech, despite US sanctions: ISA
- Resistance Front undermining Israeli regime power: Top commander
- Iran: 7 crew members of detained UK ship freed
- US addiction to sanction threaten its power: Iran’s Zarif
- Dutch role in 2007 Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear site under scrutiny: Iraian FM Spox.
- Iran: ‘Sustainable Security 2019’ kicks off in Caspian Sea
- Iran’s Zarif leaves Tehran for Moscow
- Shiraz University ranked 1st in liver transplantation: Iranian health official
- Japan’s Abe to meet Iran’s president to discuss easing tension in region
- Downing of US spy drone shattered war threats against Iran: Top IRGC commander
- IAEO head reports development of first ion-therapy hospital in west of Asia
- Iranian Taekwondo team wins 2019 World Cup championship
- US sanctions failed to force Iran to buckle: Report
- Crew fixing Iran oil tanker broken down in Red Sea
- As Iranians hold nerves, US seeks to scare off trade
- Leader expresses concern about Kashmir, urges India to follow fair policy toward Muslim-majority region
- Iran saffron exports down due to smuggling, government restrictions: Exporter
- Iran FM warns US against ‘serious miscalculation’ in Persian Gulf
- Iran’s resistance policy led to release of oil tanker: MP
- Iran in reverse brain drain as top students come home in rising numbers
- Iran official calls for compensation for tanker seizure
- Iran hails N Korea for standing against ‘unilateral’ US demands
- Shia Muslims celebrate Eid Al-Ghadir
- North Korea praises Iran’s anti-US struggle
- Zarif says to meet French president Friday
- Iranian court hearing case of UK oil tanker
- Over half of Japanese voters oppose joining US-led anti-Iran coalition in Persian Gulf: Poll
- IME trade ups by 21 percent in July
- Finland backs INSTEX in defiance of US
- US anti-Iran policy in high seas harms Europeans: LA Times
- Iran, China confer on Syria
- Iran, Finland share views on Persian Gulf dialogue forum: Zarif
- Iran warns US against seizure of oil tanker
- Iraq eager to benefit from Iranian Police’s experience
- Iran planning 3rd step to reduce nuclear commitments: Spokesman
- Leader grants clemency to over 1,000 Iranian inmates
- Registration for Arbaeen Pilgrimage to begin in Iran on Friday
- Iran, Iraq agree to reopen Khosravi border crossing
- Iran deplores suicide attack at Kabul wedding hall
- Iran to hold int'l hand-woven carpets expo
- Zarif meets with Iran-Kuwait Friendship Group members
- Adrian Darya oil tanker not under any sanctions, says Iran envoy
- ‘Iran to stay in nuclear deal as long as its interests are met’
- India envoy happy with positive trend of trade with Iran
- Iran’s annual export of white meat tops 2.5m tons: Minister
- Iranian scientist discovers new state of matter
- Iran, Japan diplomats discuss bilateral ties
- Iran, Ansarullah, European representatives Yemen developments
- ‘Iran to become self-sufficient in producing aircraft engines'
- US issues seizure warrant for Iranian supertanker 'Grace 1'
- Neanderthal tooth unearthed near Iran’s Zagros mountain
- Iran’s Zarif due in Kuwait on Saturday
- US faces humiliating defeat after Gibraltar releases Iranian tanker: Envoy
- Spokesman rejects claim on Iran’s commitment in exchange for tanker release
- Zarif reacts to release of Iranian tanker in Gibraltar
- Israel, UAE engaged in secret talks on Iran arranged by US: Report
- US threatens visa ban as Iranian-operated tanker sets to sail from Gibraltar
- Enemies must factor Iran's global power in their calculations: IRGC's chief commander
- Trump’s administration conflicting messages to Iran baffle go-betweens: Report
- Gibraltar releases Iran-operated tanker despite US pressure
Wednesday, 25 November 2020 _Power politics in West Asia is a central issue in debates on the future of the region after decades and decades of wars imposed and conflicts elicited by the hegemonic powers of the post-Second World War era. To expand their domination, imperial dominions of the late Nineteenth Century reformed the structure of the region in a way that shaped foreign policies and international relations of its comprising states for at least the next 100 years.
In this regard, the 1916 secret treaty of Sykes-Picot to impose imperial, colonial borders and split the Levant, transforming systemic variables or the balance of power is of greater importance among others. Later, with the end of the Second World War and consolidation of the United States as one of the dominant forces of the then-bipolar system, as well as the establishment of the Zionist regime, actors changed, but the structure remained the same. Zionism, USSR-US hostilities, debt crises of Arab nations, and Western neo‐imperialist neo-liberal solutions to maintain the status quo, and last but not least, oil price fluctuations — and subsequent “protectionist” measures of economically-inflicted allies (infiltration) — all implied that the force of decolonization had no chance of winning the battle for outright independence.
In February 1979, the Iranian Revolution put an end to capitulation. It was only half a century ago that almost 50 percent of its population had perished by the British imperialism. Neither in the following years of Saddam’s invasion, despite pouring arms into Ba’athist Iraq, not to mention chemical weapons, nor ever after that could any of the superpowers manage to impose its predicaments on the Islamic Republic. Iran, through sheer force of will and faith, had defeated imperialism once and for all. It is true that in the fight against dominant tendencies of the world, the Revolution had to lead a resistant lifestyle and forge the armor to withstand the financial and emotional toll. Yet it having changed the balance of power, new opportunities were opening for the other oppressed nations to break the chains.
The Islamic Revolution’s resistance power managed to weaken the US’s strategic position in the region. In the meantime, Western imperialism, at the highest level of capitalism, could find no other means except war to reshape the world and to re-establish its dominance of monopolies and finance capital. The real face of the West — deeply rooted in its ideological fanaticism — as well as its imperialist antagonism against nations’ independence and dignity, then, was revealed to the people of the region. They had realized there is no more destructive force on this earth than this tight alliance of nations loosely centralized around the United States, while millions were killed and dozens of millions more displaced. Without restraint and having liberal imperialism hardwired into their DNA, by invading five countries within twenty years, the US and its western allies turned into a Crusader state, and hence, inevitably fell prey to an overstretch of their own hegemonic power. The Axis of Resistance founded itself to mark the beginning of the end.
In Iraq and Syria, liberated from the terrors of ISIS, which only could justify the western occupation and influence, contradictory to what the Western propaganda machinery is willing to convey, not only political, defense, and economic cooperations are at their highest levels, but also people ideologically have become one against terrorism, on the one hand, and imperialism, on the other.
In Yemen as well, the US-backed Saudi oppressor, despite its arms deal with the United States, which has been the largest in history, its bombardment of civilians on a daily basis, and its inhuman siege through which more than 20 million are being starved, is losing territory to Yemeni freedom fighters.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah alone has eroded offensive intents of the Zionist regime, and units are becoming more and more determined to push back the terrorist occupation forces from the occupied territories of Syria and Lebanon.
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