Salman Rafi Sheikh — The Iran deal and the Western Geo-Politics

Geopolitics, geostrategy, and energy resources. Doesn't it always come down to oil and gas?

It is apparent that the deal with Iran is going to have repercussions at global level. The reason for this is involvement of all major powers in this issue directly or indirectly. It is not out of a sudden that Iran has emerged as a strategic necessity for the US and the EU. This change has necessarily emerged due to the collapse of the US-EU-Russian relations due to the former’s interference in Ukraine to restrict the rise of Russia. The deal is, as such, as much a part of the West’s new containment policy as of the new outlook towards the Middle East—-the erstwhile home to all sorts of conflicts: political, strategic, economic, ethnic and religious. 

 New Eastern Outlook The Iran deal and the Western Geo-Politics Salman Rafi Sheikh, research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs