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New World Order: Middle East Chapter
What kind of Middle East do Iran’s leaders, including president Ebrahim Raisi, want and what are they prepared to do to get it?
The recent Taliban victory in Afghanistan and the abrupt American withdrawal are only the most dramatic evidence of a profound realignment in the politics of the Middle East.For months, former enemies have been talking to each other; the Israelis are no longer pariahs in at least some of the region; military confrontation seems to have taken a back seat—in rhetoric and, to an extent, in fact—to economic cooperation.
Iran sits at the center of this emerging new…
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