“What is the U.S. policy toward Iran? Non-existent, in my opinion. There is no policy and, in the meantime, every month the Iranians keep progressing and getting closer to achieving a nuclear weapon,” he said.
Washington is also in danger of being seen as a paper tiger on this issue, he warned, since it isn’t vigorously challenging those who are breaking American sanctions against the Islamic Republic. China, he noted, has thrown a lifeline to Tehran with its huge oil trade, without facing consequences.
This impression that Washington wants less and less to do in the Middle East is not good for Israel, he noted, because Arab states that thought they had an unspoken security partnership with Jerusalem and Washington may now think that this is “unachievable.”
In addition, in contrast to past decades when they saw Israel “as a country that has lots of influence in Washington,” they have noted the current strain between the Biden and Netanyahu administrations and may conclude that it doesn’t pay to be openly friendly with the Jewish state.
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