DECRYPTION – The war in Ukraine has strengthened the anti-Western alliance between these countries, which share common interests.
The only thing missing is Chinese President Xi Jinping to make the group complete. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ebrahim Raïssi and Vladimir Putin: three autocratic presidents who regularly challenge Western democracies meet on Tuesday in Tehran for a three-way international summit. In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East, this meeting devoted to Syria and bilateral issues is both a snub to the United States and an additional step in strengthening an anti-Western pole, initiated there several years ago but crystallized by the war in Ukraine.
The Russian president, the Turkish president and the Iranian president: despite their differences, they all have things to exchange and issues to discuss, in threes or in private. First the Turks. Erdogan comes to Tehran to seek the green light he needs to launch his“special operation” against pro-Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, where he wants to establish a “safe zone”