'Biden is charting a dangerous path in signaling to Saudi Arabia that Washington has its back in return for Israel normalization.'
Trita Parsi is Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign politics, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He is author of"Losing an Enemy - Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy";"A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran"; and"Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States."in the Persian Gulf that could lead to a U.S.-Iran war.
Biden is primarily responsible for having created this situation due to two policy paths he has chosen.rather than reentering it via executive orderIran has undoubtedly created its fair share of problems in the talks. But by choosing a negotiated return, Biden also chose to keep Trump’s sanctions in place — even though key Biden officials are on record blasting Trump’s max pressure strategy as a dismal failure.
But today, Trump’s maximum pressure strategy is Biden’s. One element of it has been to confiscate Iranian oil on the high seas — in contradiction to international law — as a way to enforce US sanctions on Iran. Predictably, Iran responded bythat collaborated with Biden on this matter. This has then prompted Biden to beef up U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf to prevent Iranian actions that only began as a result of Biden’s own policies.
But now Biden may “remarkably escalate” this counterproductive policy by putting U.S. military directly into the mix. This is partly due to the second policy he has erroneously prioritized:
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