It is clear that Iranian pro-regime media is not coming to this conclusion in agreement with those in the West who are pro-Israel and critics of Iran but worried about the deal’s ramifications.
Instead, Iranian media, with support from the regime and the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), is messaging about this deal in such a way as to portray it as some kind of real-world chess game.
The concept of three-dimensional chess is one in which something is overly complicated and not played out in a linear or two-dimensional landscape. Iran’s regime doesn’t want to send the message that the deal with Saudi Arabia was simply due to necessity and pragmatism and that Iran is now pro-Saudi. Instead, it wants to message that it is doing more than just normalizing ties with Riyadh, pretending that it has done so to undermine the US and Israel.
According to the Tasnim International News Agency report, “the developments in the region in the recent stage have moved in different directions, which shows that the period of maneuvers and benefits of the US and the Zionist regime – from the tension in the relations of the countries of the region to stabilize the existence of Israel and create a Zionist-Arab coalition against Iran and the axis of resistance – is over.” This convoluted statement means that the new Saudi-Iran deal is part of a larger process by which Tehran and its “resistance” allies in the region are reversing several years of Israeli success that came about via the Abraham Accords. READ MORE
