The Role of Iran-Russia Cooperation in the New Order of the West Asian Region – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
Mehr News Agency, International Group – Mohammad Reza Moradi: Iranian President Dr. Ra’isi’s visit to Russia has led to a number of issues, including Russia’s role in the West Asian region. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has once again expressed its interest in West Asia and is expanding its influence in the region. On the other hand, Iran seeks to form a new regional order commensurate with the interests and requirements of regional actors. In the meantime, using Russia’s capabilities to shape this new order could be crucial. In this article, we will take a look at the impact of Iran-Russia cooperation on the formation of a new regional order.
The course of changing the world and regional order
One of the most important issues in the West Asian region is the order of the region. The order in West Asia is a function of the world order and has changed with the changes of the world order. The bipolar system ruled the world from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. In the bipolar order, the Soviet Union and the United States, as two poles of power, divided the regions of the world into spheres of influence and ruled over different spheres. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world order also changed and the United States became the only existing pole in different regions. From this period, the order desired by the United States prevailed in the West Asian region, the most important strategic goal of which was to “ensure the security of Israel”, because the United States has common strategic interests with the Zionist regime. The American order in West Asia, while taking into account the position of the actors, implements American policies in the region. This order, while preventing the effective presence of other trans-regional actors, alone determines the ruling security system in West Asia and plays a role according to its own interests. Influential regional actors have very little influence in this order and type of security system, and the majority of them act as executors of US policies.
The developments in the Arab world that began in 2011 dealt a major blow to the American order in the region. During this period, regional actors after a long time sought to change the ruling order and pursue their desired order. Iran stressed the “Islamic awakening” in the region, Turkey called for the formation of the Brotherhood axis, and Saudi Arabia sought to maintain the status quo and the continuation of kingdoms in the Arab region, by changing some components of the existing order that were against its interests, such as Syria. Change in your favor.
But the course of events in West Asia did not go so far as to achieve the goals of Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Among the crises in West Asia, the “Syrian crisis” became a turning point in the change of “regional order”. In this crisis, regional and trans-regional actors once again tested each other. But in the end, Iran, with the cooperation of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Russia, was able to achieve its goals of defeating the terrorists and stabilizing the ruling regime in Syria. The US defeat in Syria has accelerated the process of changing the regional order. Because the withdrawal of American troops as the guarantor of the current order in West Asia has continued with greater intensity.
The world is now undergoing systemic change. In fact, the world is transitioning to a system in which the United States has pursued a policy of containment. The United States has shifted its focus from West Asia to East Asia to control China, and in doing so has helped change the order of the West Asian and North African regions. Now, however, the era of American unilateralism in West Asia is coming to an end. Since the Cold War and the collapse of the bipolar system, regions and regional actors have become particularly important. In the current context in West Asia, regional actors are shaping the new order, an order in which extra-regional countries do not seem to enter and take on the sole role of managing this order.
The Impact of Iran-Russia Cooperation on the Formation of a New Order
The United States is now seeking to reduce its presence in the region due to its limitations as well as its failed experiences in West Asia. This provides a good opportunity for US rivals China and Russia to work with regional actors to shape the new order. Since taking office in the early part of the new century, Russian President Vladimir Putin has found West Asia a good place to challenge the United States and compete with Washington. West Asia, as a vast region with diverse structures and full of challenges, is a good place for Russian policies. As China expands its power, it is increasingly relying on less influential parts of the world. West Asia is the most important area for Beijing in this regard.
In the meantime, an actor who can use the capacities and power of China and Russia to form a new order in West Asia will undoubtedly become the top player and the top pole in the new regional order, because although the new order in West Asia depends It will be regional actors, but without the support of the great powers, the new order will face many challenges to stabilize. Iran has been able to further develop its relations with China and Russia. This issue will create a good opportunity for Iran to play the most effective role in the process of forming a new order; An order whose most important feature will be to end the presence of extra-regional countries and to seek regional security.
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are three countries that will be able to influence the new regional order. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has largely lost its influence due to internal disputes and defeats in the Yemeni-Turkish war due to the growing economic crisis, as well as regional defeats.
The weakening of Iran’s main regional rivals, along with Iran’s geopolitical, geoeconomic, advanced space, nuclear and military technology, and discourse-building power, has shifted the balance of power in favor of Iran and its allies in the region so that a new order is possible. Based on the will of Iran in West Asia. Of course, due to the complexities of the region, Iran must seek to de-escalate various regional issues through intelligent interaction with other regional actors and help regional countries reach a common understanding of the inevitability of collective action.
The end of speech
It is certain that the American order in West Asia is changing, but the coordinates of the new order in West Asia have not yet been determined. Of course, the most important feature of the new regional order is that the United States is no longer dependent on the United States, and that the United States will no longer be able to decide on security alone in the region, and for the first time, regional countries are taking control of the region. This will usher in a new era in West Asia where, for the first time, regional actors are shaping regional security arrangements. During the meeting of the members of the Assembly of Experts with the Supreme Leader of the Revolution (1393/06/13), he emphasized: And is conversion; Man understands and observes this. After World War I, a new order emerged in the world, and especially in our region; Powers came to life, became the supreme powers of the world; And after World War II – which is about seventy years old – this world order was established and the management of the world took on a special form. In fact, the West, both in the form of the socialist system and in the form of the liberal system, both of which were Western, ruled the world, and the management of the world was given to them. Asia, Africa, Latin America, and various parts of the world moved under their influence, will, and will during these seventy years. “One can clearly see that this order is changing.” The Supreme Leader of the Revolution had already announced the beginning of a historical turning point in the world. The change in the ruling order of West Asia will undoubtedly be one of the characteristics of this great historical turning point.
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