It is worth noting that the new Middle East came into the limelight when Condoleezza Rice, the then US Secretary of State, described the Zionist regime’s attack on Lebanon during the 33-day war in Tel Aviv on July 21, 2006, as “the birth pain of the new Middle East” and added that ‘whatever we do, we must make sure that there is a push towards a new Middle East and not a return to the old Middle East!’

However, as the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution pointed out in his recent statement, the US strategies regarding the formation of the new Middle East, which is aimed at “providing illegitimate needs and interests” of the United States, have met with failure; in his words, ‘what the Americans have called the “New Middle East” is 180 degrees different from what it is today’.

The important features of the US strategy to create a new Middle East can be listed as follows:

One; trying to overthrow the ruling regimes that are not aligned with the US in the region, especially in Syria and Iraq;

Two; balkanization and formation of mosaic countries in the region; in other words, the division of some countries in the region from Syria to Yemen and turning them into small countries in which state-nation-building is formed in line with the interests of the United States and thus facilitates the process of the presence and influence of the United States;

Three; destruction of the Islamic Resistance, especially Hezbollah in Lebanon;

Four; marginalizing the Palestinian issue and stabilizing and consolidating the position of the Zionist regime during a gradual and peaceful process by advancing the plan to normalize the relations of some Arab countries with that regime;

Five; destruction of the relations of the countries of the region with the Islamic Republic of Iran with an aim of isolating it and thus eliminating or reducing its determination and influence in the equations of the region;

The “reverse engineering” of Islamic Resistance in the region, through the creation of reactionary and terrorist-Takfiri groups, including ISIS and the like, and the creation of structural chaos and war and conflict to the extent that the region aligns with the US geopolitical needs and targets, is one of the US “important tools” to shape the new Middle East.

In this regard, in addition to the defeats suffered by the US in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and Afghanistan, as well as the wars of the Palestinian Resistance and the Zionist regime, the Al-Aqsa Storm is also “the most obvious sign of the US failure in shaping the new Middle East.”

Despite the fact that the US, with the ISIS tool, advanced in more than two-thirds of the territory of Syria and Iraq, its project failed in the end with the destruction of ISIS in those two countries.

In the 1967 6-day war between the Zionist regime and several Arab countries, Tel Aviv occupied about 80,000 square kilometers of Arab and Palestinian lands. Still, in the 33-day war 2006, it could not advance even a kilometer.

It has been nearly two months that the major part of the military, intelligence, and security capabilities of the Zionist regime, with the unprecedented and full support of the United States, has been concentrated in less than 2 percent of the occupied Palestinian territory, i.e., Gaza, but not only it has not been able to achieve its declared objectives, but with “irreparable defeat” has been faced with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. In addition, the losses of the Zionist regime in the recent war with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, which do not have one-hundredth of the capabilities of the Israeli regime, are more than twice the losses of the regime in the war with Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Kuwait, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia in 1973!

The United States has directly and indirectly spent about 4 trillion dollars to create the new Middle East, which it has seriously put on the agenda since 2006. This is equivalent to the entire cost of the Second World War, as the Syrian war cost the US about 500 billion dollars. More than 600 billion dollars have been spent in Yemen to destroy Ansarollah. The Zionist regime has spent more than 60 billion dollars on the Al-Aqsa Storm with the help of the United States. But what was finally observed is the increasing trend of the strength of the Resistance front and, on the contrary, the increase of hatred towards the US in the region.

In brief, the project for the creation of which the US spent about 4 trillion dollars ended up failing at a cost of less than 25 billion dollars in the region. The United States thought that by creating insecurity in the Middle East, it could buy “security” for the Zionist regime and make it the centerpiece, unaware of the fact that the Islamic Resistance, relying on its strategy, grows stronger and stronger in times of crisis and threats.

In short, the US new Middle East has practically suffered from “brain death,” and the Al-Aqsa Storm has shown that there is no hope for its revival. Friendly and allied countries of the United States in the region have also understood this point very well.

De-Americanization in West Asia, the growing trend of improving the relations of Arab countries with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the revival of bilateral and multilateral relations with Syria, the marginalization of the normalization project, the weakening of the position of the Zionist regime, the developments in Yemen and the transformation of Ansarollah into a strategic player in the region, strengthening the view towards the East and Asianism and special attention to China and Russia in some important countries of the region are serious “consequences” of this issue that should be taken into consideration.