Nima Khorrami Assl

The Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates has shift­ed its strat­e­gy from di­rect talks with Iran to call­ing for in­ter­na­tion­al me­di­a­tion.

Ad­vo­cat­ing democ­ra­cy is nei­ther a “rem­e­dy” to Cen­tral Asia’s po­lit­i­cal ills nor a sound “strate­gic op­tion” for NATO.

The Asian gi­ants are mak­ing cal­cu­lat­ed geopo­lit­i­cal de­ci­sions when it comes to their strat­e­gy in the Mid­dle East.

The storm­ing of the British em­bassy in Tehran is part of a wider po­lit­i­cal game play­ing out in the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic.

A new strate­gic al­liance has formed, Ankara and Riyadh against Tehran, all try­ing to gain in­flu­ence over Dam­as­cus.

Chi­na’s vote will fit into its frame­work of non-in­ter­ven­tion, as it seeks to serve its own strate­gic in­ter­ests.

Port ac­cess, busi­ness deals and arms con­tracts mean un­rest in Syr­ia is prob­lem­at­ic for Russ­ian for­eign pol­i­cy.