Iran's replication of the western error


Western countries have already lost their playmaker roles many years ago. Instead, the Western stratagem, especially in the Middle East, continues to rely on the acts of spoiling the game and causing chaos. Thus, by losing its constructive power, the West has already begun to appear in the non-Western world as a purely destructive force. Meanwhile, the presupposition that the occupations and social chaos in the Middle East exclusively harm the Islamic world continues to be predominant in Western thought. Yet the terrorist activities and subsequent waves of immigration, which have threatened the world since the Afghan war, the establishment of al-Qaida and the occupation of Iraq, demonstrate without any doubt that wars, terror and chaos on any piece of land not only concern the related country, but also become a full-fledged world affair before long. Although there stood serious doubts concerning the origins of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), that is, its connections with various intelligence services as in the case of al-Qaida, today almost all European countries have been threatened by ISIS. Iran appears to aim at replicating an error that was made by European countries with their eyes wide open. At the beginning of the Syrian civil war, both Turkey and Iran had the capability to reconsolidate Syria's civil peace. Today, however, the issue at hand has become so international that neither possesses, any longer, the ability to resolve the ongoing conflict. Meanwhile, Syria played trick after trick by relying on the ancient tradition of Iranian diplomacy, however their superior cunning prevented Iranians from realizing the fact that those tricks might easily veer back toward themselves.When the moderate oppositional forces in Syria reached the level that is sufficient to overturn President Bashar Assad's regime, Iran made three fundamental moves. One, taking Lebanon's Hezbollah, which fought against Israel and is regarded as the apple of Muslims' eye, to Syria to fight against opposition Muslims,, two, leaving the region between Damascus and Iraq to the ISIS and three, the Turkish-Syrian borderland to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), i.e., the PKK's extension in Syria. In this column, we will handle the last of these three maneuvers by Iran.In particular, the possibility for the establishment of a petty state in the lands that are deserted by Syria and Iran created an immense motivation for the PKK and the other separatist Kurdish organizations in Turkey. On the first level, Iran's strategy appears to be successful, as the PKK ended the reconciliation process and reinitiated its terrorist attacks under the auspices of certain Western states and countries of the region. Thus, the lands left for the PYD, the legitimacy deriving from the war against ISIS, the Iranian latent support and an exaggerated sense of self-confidence lie behind the PKK's recent motivation for re-launching its terror in Turkey.On the other hand, the Kurdish population of the Middle East resides in Iraqi Kurdistan, southeastern Turkey, northern Syria and northwestern Iran. For the last case, the front of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei seems to be determined to take any step that is necessary for the realization of their Shiite Crescent project. Yet, with their last political game over the Kurds, they whet the appetite not only of Kurdish separatist organizations in Turkey and elsewhere, but also the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PEJAK), i.e. the Iranian PKK affiliate. Through their ancient foreign policy and an overconfidence in their supreme cunning, Iran replicated one of the main Western errors and has put its Kurdish region in jeopardy.I shall analyze Iran's project of exploiting ISIS and the danger emanating from using Hezbollah to kill Syrian Muslims in my next column. In the Islamic tradition, prudence dictates that while necessary measures should certainly be taken, the prospect of the issue at hand should be, in the final analysis, left to the discretion of God. Iran has dared to fill the latter divine space with its own cunning and subterfuge while nobody better knows than the Iranians themselves the consequences of such a sacrilege in the Islamic tradition.