ANALYSIS: How to tackle Iran’s Middle East bellicosity
By Heshmat Alavi 7 August 2017 Thanks to years of Western appeasement in the face of Iran’s belligerence across the Middle East , evidence of Tehran’s dangerous footprints are now visible in several countries across the region, including even Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The Trump administration, however, has made it quite vivid its adoption of a firm approach. This stance, signaled in the historic May conference in Riyadh, is long overdue and should be enhanced by Washington supporting the Iranian people’s desire for regime change .