Promoting democracy, particularly in the Middle East, has been a very important question in the Bush administrations through the Bush’s very courageous Forward Strategy of Freedom, as it also has been a controversial subject in the United States between the so-called realistic and promoting-democracy advocates, and in the Middle East between dictators and democracy advocates.

We, in the Middle East, prefer terms like supporting, assisting, promoting or sustaining democracy rather than the term of spreading democracy, as we do not need to be introduced to democracy, but rather we need help and support to achieve democracy. This is an important and significant element in this regard that should be realized by the western powers and all concerned parties.

Public usually are not the parties in charge of mastering, prompting and making such kinds of major changes like democratization; it is actually the elites’ job. Then, the problems of the elites in the non-democratic countries in the Middle East are not that they are in need of guidance and preaching about democracy, but rather, their problems, in this regard, are about the ruling totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their unchecked powers and wide use of political violence. Those regimes are definitely the prime obstacles to democratization along with the policies, facts, and situations they make and prompt.

Those regimes take advantage of the Middle East geopolitics and geopolitical realities, and make use of them very well to sustain their rules and systems and maintain their very existence over time and changing circumstances and realities. Then, there is a connection between the regional geopolitics and system, and the non-democratic regimes and systems in the region.

Therefore, to achieve eventually the democratization of the Middle East, there should be, first, a strategic course of action on the Middle East geopolitics and geopolitical realities there. This strategic course of action should be based on an empirical and transparent evaluation of the Middle East’s geopolitics and the related balance of power between the average non-democratic powers and the totalitarian axis of the totalitarian powers in the region, which are, at the same time, the extremist and radical regional powers in front of the other moderate powers in the Middle East.

Hence, I think that defeating the Middle East totalitarian axis led by Iran in the current geopolitical struggle in the region is an indispensable requisite or step in the road to the Middle East’s democratization. Then, without this axis is geo-politically defeated, it would be very difficult for the democratic system to grow and spread in the Middle East.

In general, the totalitarian regimes, controlling the totalitarian significant powers, along with their totalitarian systems fall or change following their countries’ loss of geopolitical strength. Actually, this is a fact can be evidenced or inferred from the world’s political history and the history of the international politics.

Hence, the geopolitical loss of the Middle East totalitarian axis, led and sponsored by the Iranian regime, is a part of the road to the Middle East’s democratization.