this success or jewish business. from here on iran hope to normalize its relations with the west but the country was then confronted with the syria and iran crises which would give it the opportunity to use other methods than diplomacy to once again become a major player in the middle east. of . behest as a hoss cemetery in tehran is the biggest in the country. the man on this post was named. day he was an officer in the revolutionary guard
it s through syria that iran has provided hezbollah with logistic and strategic count. and if you talk to iranian officials today many believe that the reason israel did not attack iran at the height of the nuclear standoff was because they were afraid of his well loss power of retaliation not because of iran s capabilities so for tehran defending the damascus regime as a question of self interest it must not for as of late two thousand and eleven the islamic republic decided to send military advisors to hezbollah in syria to support bashar al assad its efforts to crush the rebellion. around had its own outlook on the syrian conflict in its size the civil uprising
a way that you know destroyed. then you know a new era of these trust will be created in both countries relations which in my believe is not good for both sides. in tehran it is clearly understood that the american administration refuses to ratify the new position that iran occupiers on the regional chance board but the iranian leaders also know that their country s new role in the middle east is a very delicate one between the joint handling with russia of the syrian issue riyadh s obsessive hostility the changing political map in iraq and the security fears over israel they need to be able to arbitrate between the opposing interests of their enemies and their partners. iran is a self limiting our the more it pushes the more resistance creates because at the end of the day it s a shia country among some things it s
iraq war. in september one thousand eighty satam hussein decided to invade iran just months after the revolution the fledgling islamic republic was threatened with destruction. and that whatever you thought if you are in the iranian collective memory syria was the only country to support us during the war against iraq. and we ve never forgotten that that hard to the more which was. that sense of strategic solitude that they wrong is experience during the iran iraq war had deep impact on your thinking and or threat assessment and it still to this day influence how they see the world. the fact that saddam used chemical weapons against iran where. the entire
a red line for iran and that iran was willing to really take risks and put the resources in to back assad assad. i think the same is true for russia. neither iran nor russia wanted to accept. the notion of regime change that people in the middle east could ride out rise up and get rid of their leader we know russia has a real. reaction to that iran turkey. in september two thousand and fifteen russia began large scale intervention on the iranian side to defend bashar assad. but meanwhile another protagonist appeared in the middle eastern theater. on june the twelfth two thousand and fourteen islamic state forces took control of iraq s second city mosul a few days later in syria fell into jihad is towns and became the capital of the self-styled islamic caliphate. protests around