The name Middle East is wrong; This is West Asia. Asia is a big continent, we are located in West Asia. From a commercial point of view, West Asia has included the most important highways in all ages. From "Silk Road" to Canaan. Today, the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal play a similar role in maritime transport in this region.
The term Middle East was used for the first time in 1902 by the American navigator and historian, "Alfred Mahan", and he meant to describe the area around the Persian Gulf, which was considered neither the Near East nor the Far East, as it was viewed from the perspective of the European continent. . "George Lenchafsky" considers Afghanistan to be part of the Middle East; While other researchers do not accept this issue. On the other hand, "Bari Buzan" does not consider the countries of Turkey, Sudan and Cyprus as part of the Middle East.
The largest and most powerful empires of the first world, including the Achaemenids, Bakht al-Nasr and Babylonian empires, and even the peak of Alexander the Great's ascendancy, took place in the West Asian region. Governments that have dominated more than half of the world in their time and have not yet emerged like them.
Bozan considers the countries of North Africa, including Algeria, Tunisia and Maghreb, as part of the Middle East. The famous countries of West Asia and North Africa, which the Western media call the Middle East, include Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, occupied Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. , Algeria, Morocco and Pakistan.
The prophecies of the followers of religions indicate that the end of history and the establishment of the rule of divine justice will be accompanied by an international war, which is interpreted as the "battle of the end of time". There is a consensus on the occurrence of this battle among all prophecies, what can be deduced from the narrations related to this event among the followers of religions is that the occurrence of this battle is certain and its location is definitely a point in West Asia.
Considering the location of the Middle East countries in the oil and gas regions of the world, their importance in terms of supplying energy to the world is very colorful. This Asian region as the energy center of the world throughout the 20th century has been doubly noticed by everyone. Especially since the end of the Second World War, due to its importance in the world economy, it has been more and more noticed by the great powers and forced them to use various tools to be present and influence the developments in this region.