Reza Simbar; Roohollah Ghasemian
Volume 3, Issue 9 , February 2015, , Pages 143-178
Abstract
The main focus of detailed discussions in this essay was studying the reasonsthat caused Syria to turn into an important security issue for Iran. Given thelong history of relations between the two, the emergence of this crisis hasactivated Iran heavily and roughly to prevent and confront the West's powersince ...
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The main focus of detailed discussions in this essay was studying the reasonsthat caused Syria to turn into an important security issue for Iran. Given thelong history of relations between the two, the emergence of this crisis hasactivated Iran heavily and roughly to prevent and confront the West's powersince lagging in this issue will impose heavy prices on the Islamic Republic ofIran. The current essay has studied four important reasons for the securityimportance of Syria to Iran; Syria as a dam against the infiltration of the USanti-Iran policies in the Middle-East, Syria's common borders with Hezbollahand Israel, Syria as a place for adopting ideological defense-invasion strategyand its stance in the confluence point of the Islamic Iran and the Arabnationalism ideologies can be the main elements for forming Iran-Syriansecurity relations. As Iran's ally, Syria can be a key factor in preventing theWest's complete plundering of the region and given the four aforementionedcomponents, it can justify and redefine Iran's all-out support for Syria during thecrisis in the country.
