Changes in the Equations
of Power in the Islamic World

Qodsna (Tehran) – In an exclusive interview with Qods News Agency, Middle East expert, Hossein Ruivaran said: There are three political powers in the western part of the Islamic world, namely Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. These three powers have been seeking to increase their power and influence in recent decades.

Since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran has sought to create an axis of resistance based on opposition to the Zionist regime with a Shiite context and view of Islamic unity.

Turkey-based on two approaches of dependence to West and Brotherhood thinking has sought to gain influence in the region since the rise of Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Turkey is a member of NATO and is fully aligned with the United States in many political areas.

Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is a regional power that is completely dependent on the United States and pursues ambitions in the Islamic world because of the existence of holy shrines of Mecca and Medina in this country. This effort is aimed at gaining influence based on Wahhabi Salafi and Western support.

The interaction between these three Islamic regional powers somehow reflects the situation in the region.

Iran is a completely independent country and on the opposite of the will of the West and sometimes interacts with Turkey, like the Astana process about Syria. The other two powers, Turkey and Saudi Arabia operate in a competitive framework in the region but in Syria, the United States, by using their dependence on itself, has put them on the same front.

The two Sunni powers are now worried as Jo Biden U.S. president-elect takes office in January. Biden has said that Saudi Arabia's human rights violations will not be ignored and that the war in Yemen must end, and that Saudi Arabia's investment in Trump in the election will probably not be forgotten.

Biden team also said that Turkey's ambitions regarding Greece and Armenia are not unacceptable to the United States and that Turkey should be limited.

Recent actions by Turkey and Saudi Arabia show some concern over the Biden era. Recent talks between the head of the Turkish Security Intelligence Service (MIT) and his Israeli counterpart, as well as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman's meeting with Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, show that the two powers are working together with Israel to overcome the pressures of the Biden period.

Hence, many political experts believe that in the near future, there will be some kind of cooperation between Turkeys’s Erdogan and the Takfiri Wahhabi of Saudi Arabia, he said, adding that this cooperation could increase the threat against Iran and the axis of resistance.