Thursday, May 7, 2015

Salman Rafi Sheikh — The Iran deal and the Western Geo-Politics


Geopolitics, geostrategy, and energy resources. Doesn't it always come down to oil and gas?
It is apparent that the deal with Iran is going to have repercussions at global level. The reason for this is involvement of all major powers in this issue directly or indirectly. It is not out of a sudden that Iran has emerged as a strategic necessity for the US and the EU. This change has necessarily emerged due to the collapse of the US-EU-Russian relations due to the former’s interference in Ukraine to restrict the rise of Russia. The deal is, as such, as much a part of the West’s new containment policy as of the new outlook towards the Middle East—-the erstwhile home to all sorts of conflicts: political, strategic, economic, ethnic and religious. 
 New Eastern Outlook
The Iran deal and the Western Geo-Politics
Salman Rafi Sheikh, research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs

1 comment:

Matt Franko said...

Tom none of this would even be going on if Russia hadn't reneged on its gas deal in the first place... once the current Russian leadership pulled that one all of this we are seeing was a fait accompli. ... you cant renege.... if you renege then it goes to regime change... same with daffy Khadaffi, Venezuela, etc... you cant have people in there who will renege when the deal has been made... they gotta go and you have to get new people in there...