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an as well as the EFTA00630297 Lebanese resistance from a Syrian perspective. This is well understood in the light of the three decades of Iran's Levant policy and partnership with Syria. Thirty three years ago, after the fall of the Shah, Yasser Arafat was the first foreign leader who arrived to r
laims in the South China Sea and into a similar dispute with Japan in the East China Sea. Energy- related disputes of this sort can also be found in the Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously su
o. EFTA_R1_00229020 EFTA01842223 Let's consider a post-attack Middle East. The risk factors are well known: potential Iranian retaliation in the Levant, the Persian Gulf and perhaps against Israeli and American interests abroad, as well as destabilizing consequences for global oil markets. Those I
igns — either on their territories or their regimes. Iran also targets Azerbaijan. In 2001, Iranian forces blew up an Azeri oil exploration ship in the Caspian Sea, claiming it was in Iranian territorial waters. In 2009, Iran's movement of an oil rig toward Azerbaijan's territorial waters in the Capsian Sea l
h the Palestinian as well as the Lebanese resistance from a Syrian perspective. This is well understood in the light of the three decades of Iran's Levant policy and partnership with Syria. Thirty three years ago, after the fall of the Shah, Yasser Arafat was the first foreign leader who arrived to r
32 EFTA01882568 China Sea and into a similar dispute with Japan in the East China Sea. Energy-related disputes of this sort can also be found in the Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice- free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously su
Entities connected to both Levant and the Caspian Sea

Lebanon
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON
United States
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Tehran
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George W. Bush
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Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Tunisia
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Damascus
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Yemen
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Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Jerusalem
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Bill Clinton
PERSON
Hillary Clinton
PERSON
the Persian Gulf
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al-Qaeda
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Baghdad
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