Middle East Struggle is a card-driven board game of geopolitical conflict simulation of actual events. Players represent the three regional powers in the contemporary Middle East: Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. They compete for influence on the region’s map while maintaining internal cohesion and securing support from world superpowers. Card play covers all the tools available: intrigue, covert operations, extreme ideologies, oil, propaganda, technology, espionage, and proxy wars. Four scenarios, one for each decade since the Iranian Revolution, plus a Campaign Game covering 1979 to present are included, plus a tutorial game of the events of 1978-1979 to assist new players in learning game mechanics. The player who scores the most victory points wins. —description from the publisher