As the attacks on Saudi oil facilities push the Middle East back into the limelight, President Donald Trump faces a stalemate. A looming threat from a defiant Iran and its proxies and a growing dynamic between Russia-Iran-Turkey is the “biggest challenge in the region for the United States since the Iranian Revolution in 1979,” according to an expert.
Retired Col. Eldad Shavit, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, Israel, said the recent Iranian attacks haven’t allowed the United States to disengage from the region.
