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 .