Arab Moderate Camp under Iranian Attack: The New Level of Regional Struggle

In a previous article, I pointed out the Iranian regional camp's exploitation of Gaza operation by the concerted and unified severe attack on Egypt, irrelevant to Gaza operation. This attack, or campaign, has been apparently deliberate and planned in previous, as showed by the harmony of the various parties of the Iranian camp in the region and Iran's Arab surrogates from Hezbullah to Baath in Syria besides Hamas of course.

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What was really surprising in this regard is the very far extent this concerted deliberate attack went, in both scope and severity. As regards the scope of this Iranian attack, it actually started with Egypt and then reached the various moderate Arab countries in the region while keeping Egypt in the center of this campaign and its associated propaganda.

Moreover, as regards the severity of this attack, it was surprisingly breaking the very traditional limits and norms established implicitly between the various non-democratic regimes in the Middle East, especially in the post-Cold War era, as it went to the extent of inciting public uprisings to topple some Arab governments and regimes.

In this regard, it is worthy of mention many statements and declarations by Iranian political and religious officials attacking Egypt and moderate Arab countries after Gaza operation. However, the most explicit Iranian stand in this regard was the Hezbullah attack on Egypt, which called for public and military disobedience in Egypt, and almost called for toppling the Egyptian regime.

The other same position came from the Baath regime in Syria, which almost went as far as the Hezbullah attack and inciting. This Baath position is unprecedented to my knowledge. In fact, in spit of the increasing tension between the Baath regime and the Arab countries of the moderate camp in the region since the assassination of former Lebanese PM Hariri, I do not recall that the Baath regime went so far, as I watch on Baath official and private media in Syria.

It has never been like this situation between the Baath regime, which is based ideologically on Arabism and calling for Arab solidarity and unity, and leading Arab countries criticizing the strong Baath-Iran alliance, and implicitly marking this regime's policies as the most serious Iranian penetration of the Arab region and interests.

Hence, the very far extent of the current unprecedented Iranian camp against Arab moderate countries, especially Egypt, makes it like a war declaration against them, as exactly as stated by the Egyptian foreign minister following the Hezbullah attack on Egypt.

Then, the key question now is how moderate Arab countries would react in the future, and what would be the geopolitical implications of this new level of struggle on the region?