When Syrian President Bashar Assad was in real danger of being ousted in Syria’s Civil War, in the first half of the last decade, both Iran and then Russia came to his rescue. He certainly owes them as well as Lebanon’s Iranian-proxy Hezbollah, gratitude for his survival. But international politics is an unsentimental business and now Russia and Iran are each pursuing its own interests in Syria, leading to tensions between Moscow and Tehran over their respective agendas in Damascus.
Guests Prof. Zeev Khanin, Expert on Russian and Middle Eastern Studies, Bar Ilan and Ariel Universities, Dr. Nir Boms, Research fellow, Moshe Dayan center at Tel Aviv University, and Amir Oren , TV7 Analysts and Host of Watchmen Talk
Studio Jerusalem
Serien ger tittaren en djupare förståelse av aktuella händelser i Israel och Mellanöstern. Expertsamtalen leds av Jonathan Hessen, nyhetsankare på TV7 Israel News.
