By Tony Karon
The National
"......No surprise, then, that the democratic tsunami sweeping the Arab world has prompted warnings in Washington that Iran would be the primary strategic beneficiary from the collapse of "moderate" Arab autocracies. Iranian officials, for their own propaganda purposes, claim the same thing: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for example, hailed the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak as an "Islamic revolution" - which earned him a rebuke from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which made clear that it was not leading the revolution, and that it shared the common goal of a democratic political order in Egypt.
Still, a steady stream of western pundits and unnamed officials from Israel and Saudi Arabia warn that regimes which fall out of the US camp inevitably become part of the Iran-led "resistance" front. They said the same, of course, about Turkey when it began to adopt a foreign policy independent of its Nato allies, challenging Israel's actions in Gaza and intervening in search of a viable diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear standoff - distancing itself from a US regional strategy it saw as fatally flawed......"
The National
"......No surprise, then, that the democratic tsunami sweeping the Arab world has prompted warnings in Washington that Iran would be the primary strategic beneficiary from the collapse of "moderate" Arab autocracies. Iranian officials, for their own propaganda purposes, claim the same thing: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for example, hailed the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak as an "Islamic revolution" - which earned him a rebuke from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which made clear that it was not leading the revolution, and that it shared the common goal of a democratic political order in Egypt.
Still, a steady stream of western pundits and unnamed officials from Israel and Saudi Arabia warn that regimes which fall out of the US camp inevitably become part of the Iran-led "resistance" front. They said the same, of course, about Turkey when it began to adopt a foreign policy independent of its Nato allies, challenging Israel's actions in Gaza and intervening in search of a viable diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear standoff - distancing itself from a US regional strategy it saw as fatally flawed......"
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