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Strategic Fail: Partnering with Turkey to counter Iran would misread the region
As Iran and its proxies ramp up attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and harass American naval vessels in the Persian Gulf — an escalation possibly fueled by...
Reports suggest that officials are split between two options — forceful retaliation directly against Iran and more limited reprisals against its Iraqi proxies.
- Blaise Misztal
- War on the Rocks
But a third strategy exists — one that parts of the administration have been preparing for two years — that would allow the administration to both take the fight to Iran and…
Such a partnership might seem unthinkable to most in Washington.
A remarkable, bipartisan…