Assad is looking for legitimacy through the ballot box but a rump Syria awaits January 7, 2021 at 11:58 am | Published in: Article, Middle East, Opinion, Syria
Syrian men pretend they are casting their votes during a mock election calling for the criminal Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the stripped of his Syrian nationality, on 3 June 2014 in the mostly rebel-held city of Aleppo. [BARAA AL-HALABI/AFP via Getty Images] January 7, 2021 at 11:58 am
The Middle East is going through a dangerous transitional phase, in which more than one arena may explode at any moment, from Syria to Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iraq and Yemen. They are all open spaces that Iran controls either directly or through its proxies, in their political, economic and demographic composition, as well as their social fabric.