{"id":1107,"date":"2024-05-27T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.icgers.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:51:48","slug":"series-return-of-the-two-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.icgers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/series-return-of-the-two-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Series &#8211; Return of the Two Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-global-color-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-be8dc6e30ee89ad06b20dbd8e52659d0\" style=\"font-size:25px;text-transform:uppercase\">Part IV: Iran and Turkey: What Tips the Scale?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><em><strong>27 May 2024<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u201cThe History of Islam,\u201d Al-Hafiz al-Dhahabi reported on the Battle of the Camel (36A.H. \u2013 657 A.D.) between \u2018Ali bin Abi Talib and \u2018Aisha, the wife of the Prophet, supported by Zubayr ibn al-\u2018Awwam and Talha bin \u2018Ubaidullah: \u201c\u2018Ali walked the night among the dead with [lighting] fire. He passed by the corpse of Muhammad bin Talha [bin \u2018Ubaidullah] and he said: \u2018O Hassan, Muhammad al-Sajjad,<sup><strong>i<\/strong><\/sup> by the Ka\u2018aba, his father caused him to die this way, and if it were not out of respect for his father he would not have gone out [to fight].\u2019 Al Hassan said: \u2018You would have availed without this\u2019 \u2018O Hassan, we have no bearing on each other.\u2019\u201d<sup><strong>ii<\/strong><\/sup>\u00a0In the same vein, Iran could have eschewed calling on Turkey, the E.U., and the United States and asked for its military and technological resources for assistance in locating the aircraft Iranian President Ibrahim Ra\u2019isi had boarded, which lost contact on Sunday, May 19, 2024, during a return flight from the opening of the Qiz Qalasi hydroelectrical dam built along the Aras river, on the Iran-Azerbaidjan border.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-global-color-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1sv18PUH2LGSgog7ktAIHKgwyqS0Y06Zw\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a60459ddba36a8b9ae05199e9a6e9256\" style=\"font-size:25px;text-transform:uppercase\"><strong>Part <strong>II<\/strong>I: <\/strong>The Third Iranian Expansion into the Middle East<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><em><strong>24 April 2024<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 2019, the Russian newspaper \u201cGazeta Ru\u201d reported that Israel carried out a violent airstrike in which it bombed the Scientific Studies Research Center (SSRC) in the city of Masyaf in the Syrian Governorate of Hama. The attack used the supersonic Rampage missile, produced by Israel Military Industries in 2018 for use with F-16 and F-35 aircraft. It reaches speeds of Mach 9 and a range of 150 km. It destroyed the Russian Pantsir air defense missile system deployed to defend the center from air attacks. Israeli website \u201cDebka\u201d reported at the time that North Korean experts specializing in solid fuel production were killed, along with a number of Belarusian experts specializing in installing electronics on missiles at the center.i<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12xZMA53N6Rh4M3vY0vM_Bucsie3Lv0Rp\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7fbd5058ba616614961f4be5c7ba28ac\" style=\"font-size:25px;text-transform:uppercase\"><strong>Part II: Turkey\u2019s Persisting Strategy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><em><strong>11 March 2024<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Mughira ibn Shu\u2019ba said to Ali ibn Abi Talib before the Great Fitna: \u201cToday\u2019s decisions determine what will happen tomorrow, and today\u2019s losses are the losses of what is to come.\u201d<br>For the last half-century, Turkey\u2019s strategy to rise regionally has been intrinsically linked to a purposeful frenzy by Turkish media supporting Recep Erdogan and his ruling party, met with indifference on the part of Turkey\u2019s immediate and farther away vicinities.<br>It is an enduring tradition that whenever a political occurrence rises and moves in the political sphere, be it a state, a nation, or a political party, it will inevitably spread disturbances and fragmentation in its surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--3\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EEF3jfH5bJSY6Z2p3NSBswfaRHi7Jga5\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-pale-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ed97fef510748d50fde6882a88561add\" style=\"font-size:25px;text-transform:uppercase\"><strong>Part I: Geostrategic Restructuring<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><em><strong>12 July 2023<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the advent of Islam, Arabs called the Persian and the Byzantine Empires the Two Lions because they subjugated the peoples and nations of the Middle East and dominated the geopolitical sphere of Iraq, Syria, the Levant, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, and the Mediterranean. Each had exclusive influence and authority over this geopolitical area. Xerxes of Persia appointed governors over provinces, isolated them, and employed others. He deployed military garrisons called&nbsp;<em>masaleh<\/em>&nbsp;with commanders from the Persian army. He appointed governors over al-Hirah in Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, al-Yamamah, and Oman. Similarly, the Romans had the Levant, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Basin under their exclusive sphere of influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--4\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-pale-cyan-blue-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/15-9wwHoL6Vj_yCktElBB2OhQSj9Kn16Y\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icger.net\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icger.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/05\/icger-arabic-new-8.png?w=250\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part IV: Iran and Turkey: What Tips the Scale? 27 May 2024 In \u201cThe History of Islam,\u201d Al-Hafiz al-Dhahabi reported on the Battle of the Camel (36A.H. \u2013 657 A.D.) between \u2018Ali bin Abi Talib and \u2018Aisha, the wife of the Prophet, supported by Zubayr ibn al-\u2018Awwam and Talha bin \u2018Ubaidullah: \u201c\u2018Ali walked the night &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[58,31,44,57,59],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mena-geopolitical-analysis","category-geopolitical-studies","tag-byzantine-empires","tag-icger","tag-middle-east","tag-persian","tag-two-lions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Series - Return of the Two Lions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Before the advent of Islam, Arabs called the Persian and the Byzantine Empires the Two Lions because they subjugated the peoples and nations of the Middle East and dominated the geopolitical sphere of Iraq, Syria, the Levant, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, and the Mediterranean.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.icgers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/series-return-of-the-two-lions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Series - Return of the Two Lions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Before the advent of Islam, Arabs called the Persian and the Byzantine Empires the Two Lions because they subjugated the peoples and nations of the Middle East and dominated the geopolitical sphere of Iraq, Syria, the Levant, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, and the Mediterranean.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/eng.icgers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/series-return-of-the-two-lions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ICGER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61552288207858\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-27T14:53:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-16T11:51:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/eng.icgers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-12-at-8.34.55-PM.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dr Mohammad Walid Youssef\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ICGER_ICGER\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ICGER_ICGER\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dr Mohammad Walid Youssef\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eng.icgers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/series-return-of-the-two-lions\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eng.icgers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/series-return-of-the-two-lions\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dr Mohammad Walid Youssef\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eng.icgers.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b1769360d39b2df99044eafbc588a015\"},\"headline\":\"Series &#8211; 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