Study says no state has been as effective as Iran in regional conflicts during the past decade [Reuters]
BBC: Iran's network of influence in Mid-East 'growing'
Iran is winning the strategic struggle for influence in the Middle East against its rival, Saudi Arabia, according to a study by the London-based International Institute for
Strategic Studies (IISS).
Iran's regional rivals have spent billions of dollars on Western weaponry, much of it from the UK.
Yet for a fraction of that cost, sanctions-bound Iran has been able to successfully embed itself across the region into a position of strategic advantage.
It has a major influence - verging on a controlling influence in some cases - over the affairs of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.
Read more ....
Update: New report reveals extent of Iran's growing Middle East influence (Al Jazeera)
WNU Editor: The report is here .... "Iran's Networks of Influence in the Middle East (IISS).
Iran's regional rivals have spent billions of dollars on Western weaponry, much of it from the UK.
Yet for a fraction of that cost, sanctions-bound Iran has been able to successfully embed itself across the region into a position of strategic advantage.
It has a major influence - verging on a controlling influence in some cases - over the affairs of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.
Read more ....
Update: New report reveals extent of Iran's growing Middle East influence (Al Jazeera)
WNU Editor: The report is here .... "Iran's Networks of Influence in the Middle East (IISS).
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