In  ELIAMEP’s Working Paper no 21 authored by Evangelos Venetis it is referred that in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002 the former US President George W. Bush labeled Iran as part of the ‘Axis of Evil’. Nine years later Tehran appears to be stronger than ever and is in the … Continue reading The rising power of Iran in the Middle East: forming an axis with Iraq, Syria and Lebanon