The Kremlin is exploiting tensions in the Middle East and international platforms to promote a Russia-led Security Concept in the Persian Gulf. Senior Kremlin officials made a renewed pitch for the concept in early October 2019. The Kremlin is unlikely to realize this plan fully, but will use the process to expand Russia’s influence in the Gulf, as well as to frame Russia as an international mediator and a security guarantor.
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Nataliya Bugayova, Mason Clark: The Kremlin’s Middle East security concept
Russian submarines area picture at the Russian naval base in the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus on Sept. 26, 2019.
