In the Middle East, Much Hangs on Which Way Iran Could Evolve

摘要

Two major recent events - Israel's target killing of Iranian and HizbAllah senior officers on the Golan Heights on January 18, 2015, and the death on January 23, 2015, of Saudi Arabia's King 'Abdallah bin 'Abd al-'Aziz al Sa'ud - help accelerate the slide of the greater Middle East to a new posture. Both events were quite inevitable, but still with no forewarning.