“Washington needs a policy to offset not just Iran’s armed export of its revolution in the Middle East and the creation of the Axis of Resistance, but also Tehran’s diplomatic ground game in the region,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies who closely tracks the region and Iranian politics and diplomacy.
Diplomatic 'rope-a-dope': Saudi Arabia key to Trump's Mideast strategy, but Iran could be spoiler
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