Ebook: Iran, The Shia Crescent, And The Arab Spring

Bilgesam Publications, Report No: 35, Istanbul, 2011, 26 p.The report Iran, the Shia Crescent and the Arab Spring mainly focuses on these issues: Iran’s foreign policy line as of 1979, the Shia factors in Middle Eastern countries, Iran’s influence on these factors, and Tehran’s attitudes and the movements in the face of the rebel movements in the Arab world. Moreover, the report assesses Iran’s reactions to the people’s movements in the Arab countries along with its aims in the direction of the Shia Crescent. Within this scope, it analyses Tehran’s different stance towards the rebellion that has erupted against the Syria’s ruling party, the Nusayris [Alawis], and how Tehran has supported the current regime in Damascus.