What is it about?
Iranian foreign policy and intervention remains decisive which successfully stalled the process of peaceful transformation through Arab Spring and paved the way for the bloody civil war in Syria. This Iranian policy remained the prominent reason in formation of the ISIS and subsequent irreversible sectarian divide in the Middle East. Therefore, Middle East is likely to become the battle ground for sectarian wars in future.
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Why is it important?
Iranian regional ambitions of dominating the Middle East remained the primal factor in its dichotomous policy of initially supporting the cause of Arab Spring while later extending support to the Syrian regime of Bashar al Assad. Reading about Iranian role in Arab Spring makes it possible to understand why Arab Spring failed to achieve its objectives.
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The Iranian support to Syrian dictator was instrumental in failing the Arab Spring because it resulted in a civil war, thus allowing other authoritarian rulers to strengthen their grip on power.
Mr Shams uz Zaman
National University of Modern Languages
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This page is a summary of: Iran’s Unscrupulous Role in the Arab Spring: A March Back to Authoritarianism?, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60985-0_13.
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