As is pretty much always the case, Middle Eastern leaders have once
again failed to stop the beginnings of yet another “color” revolution,
or at least an attempt to trigger one.
This time it is Iran that has found itself staring down the barrel of
this geopolitical ploy. This development could easily have been
predicted as the wave of “color revolutions” swept across Tunisia,
Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Syria but, at the time, failed to reach Tehran.
Iran is the last Middle Eastern player standing in the way of
Washington’s and Riyadh’s plans to redraw the regional map, and it seems
that the latter two together with Israel are increasingly frustrated
with Tehran. Moreover, it was Tehran that finalized the defeat of
radical pro-Western militants that tried to take Syria down. Its
influence as a result of those victories across the world has grown to
extreme proportions, provoking concern from across Arabia’s archaic
monarchies regarding the wind of “pseudo-democratic” change they
launched back in 2011 finally coming full circle on their own doorsteps.
