Russia-Iran’s Opposition to The United States: A Glance on Syrian Crises

Abstract

The Syrian crisis is among the most topical issues of global geopolitical and humanitarian matters. Iran and Russia participate for their local and geo-economics agenda to check the US and her allies is an aspect of it. This paper aims to analyse the main points of activity of Iran and Russia; the interest of these countries and differences in their strategies. This analysis is based on Iran’s historical relation with Syria, Geopolitical intensions, the effort to retain the regional influence, and to confront regional rivals especially Saudi Arab; In view of their financial aid, military assistance, providing training grounds, etc., They have become a significant player in the matter. Russian intervention in Syria from the eve of 2015 turned into a global event and particularly into a concern for the USA. As in the case of Crimea, here again the Russian authorities are operating to safeguard their own particular strategic interests in Middle East, which is to guard the Assad regime against US, and also to spread her influence outside her geographical frontier in the realistic world power race. In this paper it is shown that Russia helped Syria by offering military assistance and through diplomatic actions as well. Here there is no external aggression, and this paper provides a systematic study of the interests shared by Iran and Russia. This paper also involves how US was irritated by Tehran as well as Moscow who contributes in defense of Syria.

Keywords: Syrian Crises, Russia, Iran, United States, Mutual Interests.