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At a time when Iran is unable to contain the numerous internal problems afflicting its people, it reverts to exporting its crises abroad by creating conflicts with other countries in secret ways.
These include encouraging remote parties to enter into wars with each other in order to divert the attention of the Iranian people from suffocating problems such as the absence of job opportunities, freedom and security, as well as control of the ruling regime’s corrupt agencies.
Instead of dedicating its efforts to finding solutions for its internal problems and focusing its attention on development, the Iranian regime seeks imaginary external victories in order to hide its inability to deal with its worsening reality.
Iran seeks to create wars, and mobilize support for conflicts that its people did not choose to wage. Despite this the regime tries to offer its people illusions about approaching victories and future conquests.
However, the Iranian people no longer believe these empty claims, because the regime is in one place and the people are in another, and words are falling on deaf ears.
The Iranian state is putting the nails in its own coffin by neglecting the people, and dragging them toward a war that adds to their suffering. In this it is hastening the end of a dogmatic and despotic regime that deals with cunning and deceit with its own people before treating surrounding regions in the same manner.

Instead of dedicating its efforts to finding solutions for its internal problems and focusing its attention on development, the Iranian regime seeks imaginary external victories in order to hide its inability to deal with its worsening reality.

Fares Al-Ghannami

This is especially true regarding the Arab Gulf countries, where Tehran seeks to divide the Arab brothers by spreading rumors, and false news and accusations, or by pushing extremist groups to rebel and cause chaos and destruction in the region.
One example is Iran’s employment of the Houthi militia to destablilize Yemen and provoke neighboring countries, such as ºÚÁÏÉçÇø and the UAE, threatening their security.
Previously, Iran has supported extremist groups in Iraq, and the world will never forget the sight of terror attacks on Iraqi markets that left hundreds, including women and children, dead or injured.
The crimes against humanity that Iran stands behind have crossed from Iraq to other countries, such as Syria, Sudan, Egypt and other Arab states, which Tehran sought to infiltrate, whether via cultural, commercial and touristic exchanges, before its role was unveiled and its malice exposed.
Tehran’s insistence on nuclear production is evidence of a military project that threatens the region and the entire world. Western nations are aware of this and are seeking to minimize its negative effects.
Nevertheless Arab countries need to take a firm and courageous stance against Iranian provocations since diplomacy has limitations, and malice gets more tyrannical when faced with forgiveness and patience.
Iran has dedicated all its potential to causing discord in countries such as Lebanon, Syria, UAE, Yemen and ºÚÁÏÉçÇø. It has tried — and still tries — to weaken the economies of these countries and affect their policies by any means.
Countries that have become aware of Iran’s malice have openly severed ties. These include Morocco, which acted decisively after learning of Tehran’s support for secessionist movements and rebellions in the country.
The political turmoil and conflicts that we see today in many Arab countries are due in large part to Iran’s secret efforts to destabilize Arab regimes in order to control them and direct their policies to serve its expansionist objectives.
Iran’s eagerness to advance nuclear production and exaggerate its rocket arsenal reveals a sort of arrogance toward the Arab countries, and shows the regime’s desire to occupy and impose hegemony on them.
Tehran has been trying for decades to extend its hegemony, works in secret through its spies and agents, and has spent vast sums of money to achieve this objective.
Now it has lost patience, so its ambitions, greed and stubbornness have been revealed to the world along with its plans for war in many Arab countries.
Finally, if the Arab world has been talking for decades about the US, describing it as the Great Satan, then today this has been diverted toward Iran, the Greater Satan. But by causing external crises and having others’ sights turned on it, the regime is heading toward inevitable death, no question about it.

• Fares Al-Ghannami is a Saudi writer and intellectual interested in political affairs. Twitter: @farescom200