KGNU – Hemispheres – Middle East Dialogues – Tuesday, July 26, 2022 @ 6 pm A Tale of Two Cities (and two meetings)… Not London and Paris but Jeddah and Teheran! With Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, center, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pose for a photo prior to their talks at the Saadabad palace, in Tehran, Iran, Iran, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

KGNU – Hemispheres – Middle East Dialogues – Tuesday, July 26, 2022 @ 6 pm A Tale of Two Cities (and two meetings)… Not London and Paris but Jeddah and Teheran! With Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince, produced by Jim Nelson

This week’s program is a “Tale of Two Cities” – not the London and Paris of Charles Dickens famous work. These two meetings took place further east – the one in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the other in Teheran. These meetings reflect – very concretely – the shifting balance of power in the broader Middle East, as well as on a broader international level. On a regional level, there is:

• the increased influence of Iran throughout the region along with the increasingly effective role of the Axis of Resistance.
• the weakening of what has been for 75 years the U.S. led “alliance” – that includes Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and the Emirates… and the growing need of most of these countries to come to some kind of less antagonistic relations with Iran
• On a more global level, the two meetings reflect the weakening of a U.S. dominated “unipolar” world and the continued strengthening of a multipolar axis led by China and Russia.

All that and more!