With the Israel Gaza struggle reportedly getting ready to a ceasefire and Iran reeling after the devastation of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the autumn of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the Center East is on the cusp of a whole realignment in 2025.
Will Syria buck the pattern of so many countries after the Arab Spring which have descended into chaos after the autumn of a tyrant?
The nation’s new de facto chief Mohammed al-Jolani, who’s now utilizing his actual title Ahmed al-Sharaa, says he will likely be average and can keep out of his neighbours affairs. However will neighbouring powers keep out of Syria?
What’s going to Iran do now that so a lot of its proxies have been devastated since October the seventh?
And if there’s a ceasefire in Gaza, what subsequent for the Palestinians?
To debate all this and extra on this week’s episode of the Fourcast, Matt Frei was joined by Channel 4 Information’ Overseas Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani and Jonathan Rugman – who lined the Center East for years at Channel 4 Information and is a now a Senior Affiliate Fellow on the defence and safety assume tank Rusi.
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