Hamid Dorj; Hussein Masoudnia
Abstract
Today, the Syrian crisis has become one of the most important international issues and has attracted the attention of many regional and trans-national actors. The study of the attitudes and interests of Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia regarding this crisis and their attempt to formulate regional equations ...
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Today, the Syrian crisis has become one of the most important international issues and has attracted the attention of many regional and trans-national actors. The study of the attitudes and interests of Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia regarding this crisis and their attempt to formulate regional equations to keep their own interests and their regional allies’, is significant. The main question of the paper is that what approach Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia take and what interests they seek from the developments in Syria? The article's hypothesis is that Iran has been supporting Bashar al-Assad in order to maintain its strategic influence in the region, especially Lebanon. On the other hand, although Turkey initially adopted a subversive approach, it was already supporting the Syrian political system because of concerns about its security and political stability as a result of developments in the Kurdish region of Syria. Saudi Arabia is also pursuing the policy of overthrowing Assad to counter the regional influence of Iran and the expansion of Salafist discourse. Qualitative analysis was used to analyze the data.
