These are the ten most widely read articles published by the BESA Center in 2017. The selections reflect strong reader interest in Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Israeli national security.
January 16, 2018
- Dr. James M. Dorsey
- Paper No. 717
If week-long anti-government protests in Iran exposed the Islamic Republic’s deep-seated economic and political problems, they also laid bare Saudi Arabia’s structural inability to establish itself as the leader of the Sunni Muslim world.