Foreword
This text seeks to read the strategies adopted by
Iran in the Middle East since the year 2003, especially in Arab arenas that
have witnessed open political, sectarian, and military conflicts[1]. In
these conflicts, Iran has old and new weighty allies that it supports or has
intervened directly in order to protect and guarantee their supremacy.
The text focuses on four arenas:
Iraq and Syria, where Iran has escalated its direct intervention since 2011;
Lebanon, where Iran’s most powerful local ally has been employed in the Syrian
conflict; and Yemen, where Iran is trapping Saudi Arabia in a war that will be
very hard to win.
