28 Mar 2024
Saturday 4 November 2017 - 16:00
Story Code : 281934

Iran unlikely to sit idle as US targets Hezbollah, PMU

Al-Monitor | : The diplomacy of smiles between the United States and Iran has come to an end. Not even regular old diplomacy seems to be an option anymore, with US President Donald Trump clearlystressing the importanceof countering what he calls theIranian regime's "destabilizing activity and support for terrorist proxies in the region.


Trump took things back to square one,undoing the path that was paved duringtwo years of marathon negotiations between diplomats and experts from Iran, the United States and the other world powers that negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Actionin different venues around the world. The nuclear deal, struck in July 2015, was seen as a required step before there could be anycooperationbetween Tehran and Washington onregional crises, mainlySyria and Iraq.

The possible collapse of the deal and the new US strategy on Iran is expected to raise the level of regional tensions, given the blatant hostility between Iran on one side, and the United Statesand its main regional partners on the other. This alone should elicit concern over precarious possibilitieson several fronts, mainly in Iraq, Yemen, Syriaand Lebanon countries of continuous political and military tensions.To Iran, its clear Trump ismainly cooperatingwith Saudi Arabia and Israel in efforts to stop the Islamic Republic of Iran from making gainsin the Middle East.

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