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PM Turki Kunjungi Iran untuk Perbaiki Hubungan

PM Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan tiba di Teheran Selasa (28/1) dan hari Rabu siang bertemu dengan Presiden Iran Hassan Rouhani serta Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

http://www.voaindonesia.com/content/pm-turki-kunjungi-iran-untuk-perbaiki-hubungan/1840537.html

Pemimpin tertinggi Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (kanan) menerima kunjungan PM Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan di Teheran, Iran hari Rabu (29/1).

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29.01.2014

Perdana Menteri Turki berkunjung ke Teheran untuk meningkatkan hubungan dengan Iran dan mendukung beberapa perjanjian ekonomi.

Perdana Menteri Recep Tayyip Erdogan tiba Selasa (28/1) malam dan hari Rabu disambut oleh Wakil Presiden I Iran Eshaq Jahangiri.

Erdogan yang Rabu siang bertemu dengan Presiden Iran Hassan Rouhani dan Pemimpin Agung Ayatollah Ali Khamenei juga menyampaikan harapan bagi kunjungan itu.

Kunjungan Erdogan ke Teheran bukan yang pertama namun dianggap penting karena kedua negara berbeda sikap mengenai perang saudara di Suriah.

Turki mendukung oposisi Suriah sementara Iran mendukung Presiden Suriah Bashar al-Assad. Namun meskipun berbeda pendapat Turki sudah mulai mendukung ide melibatkan Iran dalam perundingan mengenai masa depan Suriah.

Mau Tak Mau, Israel Merayu Turki

 

 

 

 http://cahyono-adi.blogspot.com/2014/02/mau-tak-mau-israel-merayu-turki.html#more

 

Begitu terpampang foto Erdogan yang sowan ke Teheran dan diterima dengan sangat hangat, sontak seluruh dunia mulai berbisik -bisik. Ada pihak yang kesal karena bertamunya Erdogan ke negeri yang mayoritas penduduknya adalah muslim Syiah seolah  meruntuhkan skenario konflik Sunni – Syiah yang sedang dikampanyekan secara masif.

Selama ini Erdogan, oleh sebagian kaum muslim terutama dari sebagian kelompok Sunni, sosoknya  dianggap sebaga pemimpin ideal. Media Islam mainstrem seperti Voa Isalm dan Suara Islam pun tidak ketinggalan untuk menobatkan Erdogan sebagai pemimpin sejati dunia Islam. Dalam artikelnya  Voa Islam menulis;

Dunia Islam memiliki pemimpin sejati, yaitu Perdana Menteri Turki dan Pemimpin Partai AKP (Partai Keadilan dan Pembangunan), Recep Tayyib Erdogan (Rajab Tayib Erdogan). Bukan Raja Arab Saudi, Abdullah. Erdogan memiliki perhatian yang sangat luar biasa terhadap nasib dan kondisi kaum Muslimin di seluruh dunia. Sekalipun, Turki sebagai negara sekuler, sebagaimana dalam konstitusinya, tetapi Turki dan Erdogan memiliki perhatian dan kepedulian yang sangat luar biasa terhadap kaum Muslimin di seluruh dunia. Bukan seperti para raja, perdana menteri, dan pangeran di negara-negara Arab. Begitu agungnya jiwa Erdogan sebagai pemimpin yang memiliki perhatian dan keprihatinan atas nasib yang dialami oleh saudaranya di Mesir.

Sekarang, Turki menanggung lebih 300.000 pengungsi Suriah. Pemerintah Turki mengeluarkan dana yang tidak sedikit bagi kebutuhan sehari-hari para  pengungsi Suriah diperbatasan Turki-Suriah. Turki ikut terlibat aktif dalam membantu  perjuangan para Mujahidin Suriah yang sekarang  harus berperang melawan kekuatan tentara Suriah yang dibantu milisi Syiah.

Nah, jika pemimpin sejati dunia Islam  itu kemudian bertandang ke rumahnya kaum Syiah dan dengan ringan berkata “Iran adalah rumah kedua bagi saya”, berpelukan mesra dengan Presiden Rouhani, dan menyepakati untuk melawan terorisme bersama, maka segala bentuk propaganda dari media bahwa Syiah memusuhi atau membunuhi Sunni hanyalah khayalan belaka dari para redaksinya,  fitnah- fitnah yang selama ini begitu gencar ditujukan untuk Iran dan Syiah menjadi tidak bernilai.

Namun, tidak sedikit yang meragukan niat tulus Erdogan dalam memperbaiki hubungan dengan Iran. Mereka meyakini bahwa Erdogan hanya sedang berusaha menyelamatkan diri dari kesalahan strategi politiknya di Suriah. Terlepas dari itu semua, melihat kemesraan Erdogan dengan Rouhani, benih- benih harapan akan persatuan Islam pun mulai tumbuh. Tidak sedikit yang berharap bahwa kunjungan Erdogan ini adalah momen berharga – mungkin titik balik sadarnya masyarakat dunia bahwa umat Islam harus bersatu untuk melawan musuh kita yang sebenarnya.

Jika kemudian Israel segera bertindak atas kemesraan Iran dan Turki dengan menawarkan 20 juta dollar sebagai kompensasi bagi keluarga sembilan warga Turki yang tewas dan mereka yang terluka akibat serangan Tentara Israel pada Mari Marvara, mungkin kita akan bertanya, apakah ini kebetulan saja?

Dalam perundingan besarnya kompensasi, Turki mematok senilai 30 juta dollar, namun Israel hanya bersedia membayar setengahnya. Dan kepulangan Erdogan dari Iran berefek pada bertambahnya ‘nilai tawar’ Turki di hadapan Israel. Bahkan, Netanyahu bersedia jika harus bertambah 3 juta dollar lagi untuk menunjang lancarnya perundingan.

Secara resmi, belum ada pernyataan dari pihak Turki terkait tawaran Israel. Namun seperti yang dikabarkan Haaretz, setelah melewati masa perundingan yang panjang, sikap Turki sudah mulai melunak. Sebelumnya, Turki  menuntut agar Israel mencabut blokade di Gaza sebagai syarat untuk normalisasi hubungan,  namun pada 8 November 2013  Menteri Luar Negeri Turki Ahmet Davutoglu mengatakan bahwa negaranya merasa puas dengan perubahan  kebijakan Israel  yang memungkinkan masuknya bantuan kemanusiaan ke Gaza. Tawaran Israel kali ini pun sepertinya menunjukkan arah yang positif.

Israel, tentu saja tidak buang – buang uang secara percuma. Dibalik kompensasi yang ditawarkan, Israel mengajukan syarat syarat khusus. Diantaranya:

1. Turki harus membatalkan tuntutan hukum atas tentara IDF yang terlibat dalam penyerangan terhadap kapal Mari Marvara, dan jika di waktu mendatang ada pihak yang ingin mengajukan proses hukum atas tragedi tersebut, Turki harus mencegahnya.

2. Israel menghendaki agar hubungan diplomatik kedua negara dipulihkan kembali. Seperti pertemuan tingkat menteri, saling kunjungan dan langkah-langkah lain.

3. Israel berharap Turki tidak melakukan penyerangan terhadap Israel di forum internasional dan dan juga di media massa.

Turki sepertinya harus cermat memilih kawan. Kegagalannya di Suriah seharusnya bisa menjadi pelajaran berharga bagi kebijakan ke depan.  Memilih menjadi sahabat setia Israel, atau menjadi sahabat setia Iran. Permainan masih belum berakhir dan kita masih harus menunggu, seberapa besarkah uang dapat mempengaruhi langkah yang diambil oleh pemerintah Turki. (liputanislam/haaretz/voaislam/AF)


Keterangan: tulisan asli terdapat di situs LiputanIslam.com tgl 3 Februari 2014

Diposkan oleh cahyono adi di 09.31

Global Terrorism and Saudi Arabia: Bandar’s Terror Network
Local Editor
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?fromval=1&cid=31&frid=31&eid=131074 Saudi Arabia has all the vices and none of the virtues of an oil rich state like Venezuela. The country is governed by a family dictatorship which tolerates no opposition and severely punishes human rights advocates and political dissidents. Hundreds of billions in oil revenues are controlled by the royal despotism and fuel speculative investments the world over.  The ruling elite relies on the purchase of Western arms and US military bases for protection. The wealth of productive nations is siphoned to enrich the conspicuous consumption of the Saudi ruling family. The ruling elite finances the most fanatical, retrograde, misogynist version of Islam, “Wahhabi” a sect of Sunni Islam. Faced with internal dissent from repressed subjects and religious minorities, the Saudi dictatorship perceives threats and dangers from all sides, overseas, secular, nationalists and Shiite ruling governments; internally, moderate Sunni nationalists, democrats and feminists; within the royalist cliques, traditionalists and modernizers. In response it has turned toward financing, training and arming an international network of Islamic terrorists who are directed toward attacking, invading and destroying regimes opposed to the Saudi clerical-dictatorial regime. The mastermind of the Saudi terror network is Bandar bin Sultan, who has longstanding and deep ties to high level US political, military and intelligence officials. Bandar was trained and indoctrinated at Maxwell Air Force Base and Johns Hopkins University and served as Saudi Ambassador to the US for over two decades (1983 – 2005). Between 2005 – 2011 he was Secretary of the National Security Council and in 2012 he was appointed as Director General of the Saudi Intelligence Agency. Early on Bandar became deeply immersed in clandestine terror operations working in liaison with the CIA. Among his numerous dirty operations with the CIA during the 1980s, Bandar channeled $32 million dollars to the Nicaragua Contra’s engaged in a terror campaign to overthrow the revolutionary Sandinista government in Nicaragua. During his tenure as ambassador he was actively engaged in protecting Saudi royalty with ties to the 9/11/01 bombing of the Triple Towers and the Pentagon. Suspicion that Bandar and his allies in the Royal family had prior knowledge of the bombings by Saudi terrorists (11 of the 19), is suggested by the sudden flight of Saudi Royalty following the terrorist act. US intelligence documents regarding the Saudi-Bandar connection are under Congressional review. With a wealth of experience and training in running clandestine terrorist operations, derived from his two decades of collaboration with the US intelligence agencies, Bandar was in a position to organize his own global terror network in defense of the isolated retrograde and vulnerable Saudi despotic monarchy. Bandar’s Terror Network Bandar bin Sultan has transformed Saudi Arabia from an inward-looking, tribal based regime totally dependent on US military power for its survival, to a major regional center of a vast terror network, an active financial backer of rightwing military dictatorships (Egypt) and client regimes (Yemen) and military interventor in the (Persian) Gulf region (Bahrain).  Bandar has financed and armed a vast array of clandestine terror operations, utilizing Islamic affiliates of Al-Qaeda, the Saudi controlled Wahhabi sect as well as numerous other Sunni armed groups. Bandar is a pragmatic terrorist operator,  repressing Al-Qaeda adversaries in Saudi Arabia and financing Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere.  While Bandar was a long-term asset of the US intelligence services, he has, more recently, taken an independent course where the regional interests of the despotic state diverge  from those of the US. In the same vein, while Saudi Arabia has a longstanding enmity toward Israel, Bandar has developed a “covert understanding” and working relation with the Netanyahu regime, around their common enmity toward Iran and more specifically in opposition to the interim agreement between the Obama-Rouhani regime. Bandar has intervened directly or via proxies in reshaping political alignments, destabilizing adversaries and bolstering and expanding the political reach of the Saudi dictatorship from North Africa to South Asia, from the Russian Caucuses to the Horn of Africa, sometimes in concert with Western imperialism, other times projecting Saudi hegemonic aspirations. North Africa: Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Egypt Bandar has poured billions of dollars to bolster the rightwing pro-Islamic regimes in Tunisia and Morocco, ensuring that the mass pro-democracy movements would be repressed, marginalized and demobilized. Islamic extremists receiving Saudi financial support are encouraged to back the “moderate” Islamists in government by assassinating secular democratic leaders and socialist trade union leaders in opposition. Bandar’s policies largely coincide with those of the US and France in Tunisia and Morocco; but not in Libya and Egypt. Saudi financial backing for Islamist terrorists and Al-Qaeda affiliates against Libyan President Gadhafi were in-line with the NATO air war. However divergences emerged in the aftermath, the NATO backed client regime made up of neo-liberal ex-pat’s faced off against Saudi backed Al-Qaeda and Islamist terror gangs and assorted tribal gunmen and marauders. Bandar funded Islamic extremists in Libya were bankrolled to extend their military operations to Syria, where the Saudi regime was organizing a vast military operation to overthrow the Assad regime. The internecine conflict between NATO and Saudi armed groups in Libya, spilled over and led to the Islamist murder of the US Ambassador and CIA operatives in Benghazi.  Having overthrown Gadhafi, Bandar virtually abandoned interest in the ensuing blood bath and chaos provoked by his armed assets. They in turn, became self-financing – robbing banks, pilfering oil and emptying local treasuries – relatively “independent” of Bandar’s control. In Egypt, Bandar developed, in coordination with Israel (but for different reasons), a strategy of undermining the relatively independent, democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood regime of Mohammed Morsi. Bandar and the Saudi dictatorship financially backed the military coup and dictatorship of General Sisi. The US strategy of a power-sharing agreement between the Moslem Brotherhood and the military regime, combining popular electoral legitimacy and the pro-Israel-pro NATO military was sabotaged. With a $15 billion aid package and promises of more to come, Bandar provided the Egyptian military a financial lifeline and economic immunity from any international financial reprisals. None were taken of any consequences. The military crushed the Brotherhood, jailed and threatened to execute its elected leaders. It outlawed sectors of the liberal-left opposition which it had used as cannon fodder to justify its seizure of power. In backing the military coup, Bandar eliminated a rival, democratically elected Islamic regime which stood in contrast to the Saudi despotism. He secured a like-minded dictatorial regime in a key Arab country, even though the military rulers are more secular, pro-Western, pro-Israel and less anti-Assad than the Brotherhood regime.  Bandar’s success in greasing the wheels for the Egyptian coup secured a political ally but faces an uncertain future. The revival of a new anti-dictatorial mass movement would also target the Saudi connection. Moreover Bandar undercut and weakened (Persian) Gulf State unity, Qatar had financed the Morsi regime and was out $5 billion dollars it had extended to the previous regime. Bandar’s terror network is most evident in his long-term large scale financing, arming, training and transport of tens of thousands of Islamic terrorist “volunteers” from the US, Europe, the Middle East, the Caucuses, North Africa and elsewhere. Al-Qaeda terrorists in Saudi Arabia became “martyrs of Islam” in Syria. Dozens of Islamic armed gangs in Syria competed for Saudi arms and funds. Training bases with US and European instructors and Saudi financing were established in Jordan, Pakistan and Turkey. Bandar financed the major rebel Islamic terrorist armed group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, for cross border operations. "With Hezbollah supporting Assad," Bandar directed money and arms to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades in Lebanon to bomb South Beirut, the Iranian embassy and Tripoli. Bandar directed $3 billion to the Lebanese military with the idea of fomenting a new civil war between it and Hezbollah. In co-ordination with France and the US, but with far greater funding and greater latitude to recruit Islamic terrorists, Bandar assumed the leading role and became the principle director of a three front military and diplomatic offensive against Syria, Hezbollah and Iran. For Bandar, an Islamic takeover in Syria would lead to an Islamic Syrian invasion in support of Al-Qaeda in Lebanon to defeat Hezbollah in hopes of isolating Iran. Tehran would then become the target of a Saudi-Israeli-US offensive. Bandar’s strategy is more fantasy than reality. Bandar Diverges from Washington, the Offensive in Iraq and Iran Saudi Arabia has been an extremely useful but sometimes out of control client of Washington. This is especially the case since Bandar has taken over as Intelligence chief, a long-time asset of the CIA he has also, at times, taken the liberty to extract favors for his services, especially when those favors enhance his upward advance within the Saudi power structure. Hence, for example, his ability to secure AWACs despite AIPAC opposition earned him merit points. As did Bandar’s ability to secure the departure of several hundred Saudi royalty with ties to the 9/11 bombers, despite a high level national security lockdown in the aftermath of the bombing. While there were episodic transgressions in the past, Bandar moved on to more serious divergences from US policy. He went ahead, building his own terror network, directed toward maximizing Saudi hegemony – even where it conflicted with US proxies, clients and clandestine operatives. "While the US is committed to backing the rightwing Maliki regime in Iraq," Bandar is providing political, military and financial backing to the Sunni terrorist “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”. When the US negotiated the “interim agreement” with Iran Bandar voiced his opposition and “bought” support.  Saudi signed off on a billion dollar arms agreement during French President Hollande’s visit, in exchange for greater sanctions on Iran. Bandar also expressed support for Israel’s use of the Zionist power configuration to influence the Congress, to sabotage US negotiations with Iran. Bandar has moved beyond his original submission to US intelligence handlers. His close ties with past and present US and EU presidents and political influentials have encouraged him to engage in “Big Power adventures”. He met with Russian President Putin to convince him to drop his support for Syria, offering a carrot or a stick, a multi-billion dollar arms sale for compliance and a threat to unleash Chechnyian terrorists to undermine the Sochi Olympics. He has turned Erdogan from a NATO ally supporting moderate armed opponents to Bashar Assad, into embracing the Saudi backed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a terrorist Al-Qaeda affiliate. Bandar has “overlooked” Erdogan’s “opportunist” efforts to sign off oil deals with Iran and Iraq, his continuing military arrangements with NATO and his past backing of the defunct Morsi regime in Egypt, in order to secure Erdogan’s support for the easy transit of large numbers of Saudi trained terrorists to Syria and probably Lebanon. Bandar has strengthened ties with the armed Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, arming and financing their armed resistance against the US, as well as offering the US a site for a negotiated departure. Bandar is probably supporting and arming Uighur Muslim terrorists in western China, and Chechens and Caucasian Islamic terrorists in Russia, even as the Saudis expand their oil agreements with China and cooperate with Russia’s Gazprom. The only region where the Saudis have exercised direct military intervention is in the (Persian) Gulf min-state of Bahrain, where Saudi troops crushed the pro-democracy movement challenging the local despot. Bandar: Global Terror on Dubious Domestic Foundations Bandar has embarked on an extraordinary transformation of Saudi foreign policy and enhanced its global influence. All to the worst. Like Israel, when a reactionary ruler comes to power and overturns the democratic order, Saudi arrives on the scene with bags of dollars to buttress the regime. Whenever an Islamic terror network emerges to subvert a nationalist, secular or Shiite regime, it can count on Saudi funds and arms. What some Western scribes euphemistically describe as “tenuous effort to liberalize and modernize” the retrograde Saudi regime, is really a military upgrade of its overseas terrorist activity.  Bandar uses modern techniques of terror to impose the Saudi model of reactionary rule on neighboring and distant regimes with Muslim populations. The problem is that Bandar’s “adventurous” large scale overseas operations conflict with some of the ruling Royal family’s “introspective” style of rulership. They want to be left alone to accrue hundreds of billions collecting petrol rents, to invest in high-end properties around the world, and to quietly patronize high end call girls in Washington, London and Beirut –while posing as pious guardians of Medina, Mecca and the Holy sites. So far Bandar has not been challenged, because he has been careful to pay his respects to the ruling monarch and his inner circle. He has bought and brought Western and Eastern prime ministers, presidents and other respectable notable to Riyadh to sign deals and pay compliments to the delight of the reigning despot. Yet his solicitous behavior to overseas Al-Qaeda operations, his encouraging Saudi extremists to go overseas and engage in terrorist wars, disturbs monarchical circles. They worry that Saudis trained, armed and knowledgeable terrorists – dubbed as “holy warriors” – may return from Syria, Russia and Iraq and bomb the King's palaces. Moreover, oversea regimes targeted by Bandar’s terror network may retaliate, Russia or Iran, Syrians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Iraqis may just sponsor their own instruments of retaliation. Despite the hundreds of billions spent on arms purchases, the Saudi regime is very vulnerable on all levels. Apart from tribal legions, the billionaire elite have little popular support and even less legitimacy. It depends on overseas migrant labor, foreign “experts” and US military forces. The Saudi elite is also despised by the most religious of the Wahhabi clergy for allowing “infidels” on sacred terrain. While Bandar extends Saudi power abroad, the domestic foundations of rule are narrowing. While he defies US policymakers in Syria, Iran and Afghanistan, the regime depends on the US Air Force and Seventh Fleet to protect it from a growing array of adversarial regimes. Bandar, with his inflated ego, may believe that he is a “Saladin” building a new Islamic empire, but in reality, by waving one finger his patron monarch can lead to his rapid dismissal. One too many provocative civilian bombings by his Islamic terrorist beneficiaries can lead to an international crises leading to Saudi Arabia becoming the target of world opprobrium. In reality, Bandar bin Sultan is the protégé and successor of Bin Laden; he has deepened and systematized global terrorism.  Bandar’s terror network has murdered far more innocent victims than Bin Laden. That, of course, is to be expected; after all he has billions of dollars from the Saudi treasury, training from the CIA and the handshake of Netanyahu! By Prof. James Petras This article has originally appeared on ‘Global Research’. Saudis want Takfiristan in Syria and Iraq   Saudi spymaster Bandar bin Sultan is believed to lead Saudi-sponsored terrorist efforts in Iraq and Syria. With Saudi-backed takfiris controlling Iraq’s Anbar province and the adjoining areas in Syria, it has become clear that their medieval sponsors want to create Takfiristan in this region. The Geneva conference on Syria produced little of substance. This was expected; few harbored any illusions that it would produce any breakthroughs or result in ending the suffering of the Syrian people. The reason is simple: not only are the two sides very far apart, but the so-called Syrian opposition is made up of an odd assortment of opportunists that have no support inside Syria. Their foreign sponsors, however, have other plans. Geneva was a sideshow. The real struggle is going on inside Syria and now increasingly in Iraq as well. A quick glance at the map would show that the foreign, primarily Saudi-backed mercenaries in Syria and Iraq occupy crucial space in both countries that could form the borders of a future takfiri state. In Iraq, the takfiris occupy the Anbar province stretching from northwest of Baghdad all the way to the Syrian border. In Syria, too, they occupy the adjoining border region and the takfiris are on a roll against other rebel groups as well. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has been virtually decimated and their areas occupied by takfiris. This has made life easier for Syrian government forces. Many members of the FSA have streamed back to the government side. Most Syrians now realize that the takfiri mercenaries pose a far greater threat to their existence than the Syrian regime ever did. In fact, even the BBC was forced to admit on January 21 that a survey among Syrian refugees found 87% opposed the takfiris in their country and would like to have the crisis resolved through dialogue. This is not something the takfiris and their foreign sponsors, especially Saudi Arabia want. The Saudis know only one game: dividing Muslims by spreading hatred against groups/people they dislike. The Saudi regime has allocated $6 billion to finance the takfiris to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Asad. Compare this to the meager $120 million donated by Saudi Arabia and Qatar combined to look after more than two million Syrian refugees languishing in terrible conditions in camps in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. For the Saudis, killing people, especially those they do not like is far more important than saving innocent human lives. The Saudi-backed military policy, however, is not getting very far but their campaign of spreading hatred is more effective. People’s emotions can be easily aroused by planting doubts in their minds. This is what the Saudis know and do best. They have spread their poisonous ideology far and wide. Pakistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia are in their grip where takfiri demagogues are running amok. Suicide and car bombings are their signature mark. Innocent people are routinely targeted and killed. How can the Saudis claim to be following the Qur’an and Sunnah when they promote and finance such demonic notions? The reality is that they are only concerned about saving their own illegitimate hold on power in the Arabian Peninsula where stirrings of revolt are getting stronger. The takfiri poison is bound to infect Saudi society as well just as a decade ago, the eruption of al-Qaeda took the Saudis also in its sweep. The takfiris have no loyalty to anyone or anything; their ideology of hate and killings will ultimately turn on their sponsors. That explains why the Saudis are so anxious to create a state of Takfiristan in parts of Iraq and Syria so that these monsters can be contained therein and unleashed only when needed against the next “enemy.” Like the Saudis’ military policy, the Takfiristan project is also bound to fail. Perhaps, this failure will hasten the demise of one of the most hated ruling dynasties in the world. By Zafar Bangash Source: Crescent International - See more at: http://en.alalam.ir/news/1562849#sthash.05En5pwS.dpuf