The gathering Gulf storm

One doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the renewed US campaign about the Iran nuclear issue camouflages a struggle for the domination of the Gulf and the Middle East � a region that set the tempo of the Cold War in the last century and will significantly determine the contours of the world order struggling to be born.

What is unfolding in the Gulf and the Middle East is nothing short of a remaking of that region in geopolitical terms. The Iran nuclear issue is a mere smokescreen.

The unravelling of the century-old Sykes-Picot agreement underlying the 1922 Middle East settlement is now complete. Like Lawrence of Arabia did almost a hundred years ago in creating the myth of an “Arab revolt”, the Iran nuclear issue is becoming the locus of a new geopolitical order that is sought to be imposed on the region.

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