A safer Middle East is taking shape

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For four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been the single greatest source of instability in the Middle East. It armed Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and a constellation of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria. It plotted assassinations and fomented unrest from Beirut to Bahrain. It built an infrastructure of coercion that stretched across five countries and threatened every government in the region. Its ballistic missile arsenal and advancing nuclear program gave it coercive leverage that no neighbor could ignore. And its willingness to use proxies against any state that pushed back kept the region in a permanent defensive posture. That era is ending...

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