International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation who are supposed to support such groups. But consequence of a series of crises and wars it missed tremendous chances to engage since then. The West was not only blamed for Islamist states and organizations to bring about disregarding the result of an election; but for political solutions. To give only two examples: monopolizing the principles of democracy to After 9/11, in fall 2001, Iran supported the make them serving its own purposes. Northern alliance in Afghanistan to ght the Taleban; thus, they were on the same side with As a result of Western domination over the the USA and lending indirect support to Middle East since the end of the World War I, American troups to drive the Taleban out of many people in the Middle East tend to see what Kabul. To the tremendous surprise of the Iranian is happening in the framework of conspiracy leadership, by the end of January 2002, in theory. Up to present, Western policy has been President George W. Bush's„State of the Union“ doing a lot to keep this perception alive. The message they found themselves being put on entire episode of getting rid of Saddam Husain is the„axis of evil“. This made it impossible for a telling story in this respect. The bunch of lies President Mohammed Khatami, to continue his on which the military operation in 2003 was course of political liberalization against the grounded has contributed a lot to the conviction resistance of the hardliner fraction within the that„Muslims“ are considered pawns of 11 religious system of the Islamic Republic. So, the ground was prepared for the takeover of a more Western interests in the Middle East. This has been refueled by recent developments in Iraq radical president who sought legitimacy by and Syria(fall 2014). Since the inception of the confronting the West; the more so, as in the revolt in Syria, Western powers have undertaken following Iran was exclusively dealt with in the close to nothing to make the regime in framework of the nuclear issue. Damascus feel that is no longer considered Bashar al-Asad the legitimate ruler of the The second example is no less telling for the country. More than 200.000 people have been one-sided agenda setting by the West with killed; half of the population is displaced either in regard to dealing with„terrorist“ organizations. Syria herself or abroad. As to the use of In January 2006, elections were held for the chemical weapons, president Obama had Palestinian National Council, which were clearly warned against transgressing the„red line“. But won by Hamas. Therefore, the way was open to when it happened in August 2013, the American establish a broad coalition government which president abstained from taking action; instead would have had every legitimacy to resume he let himself being manoeuver by Russian negotiations with Israel to solve the Palestinian president Putin to a side track. When, however, question on the basis of a two-state concept. a few Westerners – cruel as it has been – were Unfortunately, the international community, decapitated by the„Islamic State“ in front of pressured by the conservative Israeli running cameras, he started waging air strikes government under the leadership of Ariel Sharon against the terrorist organization. People in the did not recognize the result of the elections. The Middle East had good reason to again raise the argument was that Hamas is a„terrorist question about the American(Western) agenda organization“ and not a political party, which vis à vis what is going on in the region. could be accepted as a democratic political „terrorists“or those Spread to nally, in actor. As a result, Hamas became more radical November/December 2014 methods of brutal and grabbed power in Gaza by 2007 with the torture applied by the American secret service