Iran's Race for Regional Supremacy Strategic Implications for the Middle East

The publication of this updated and newly titled edition of the Jerusalem Center for Public Afairs’ 2007 policy monograph,
Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas and the Global Jihad: a New Confict Paradigm for the West
, comes at a critical moment. Since the frst edition was published in the aftermath of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, regional events have only vindicated the study’s thesis: that Iran’s use of terror proxies in its race for regional supremacy is the primary cause of instability in the Middle East, not the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Since the 2006 war with Hizbullah, Iran has sponsored terror operations in the Middle East states amenable to the West, including Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Gulf states, in the service of destabilizing the governments of those states. It has escalated its direct attacks through organizations it backs – with money, training and weaponry – like the Hamas military takeover of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, in June 2007 and Hizbullah’s near coup d’état in Beirut in May 2008 against Prime Minister Fouad Seniora’s government.

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