Saudi Arabia and Israel are pushing US to confront Iran. Trump shouldn't take the bait | By Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky for CNNOpinion
Aaron David Miller is a distinguished fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and author of"The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have Another Great President." Miller was a Middle East negotiator in Democratic and Republican administrations. Richard Sokolsky is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former member of the US State Department's Office of Policy Planning.
In February, as a Middle East meeting hosted by the Poles and orchestrated by the Trump administration kicked off, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted an ominous tweet, saying that the gathering was to"advance the common interest of war with Iran." The tweet was soon after deleted and reposted to read"combatting Iran" -- but the implication remained. Meanwhile, a recent Saudi news outlet reportedly close to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman urged the US to launch surgical strikes against Iran after the kingdom accused Tehran of a drone strike that closed down a Saudi oil pipeline. Richard Sokolsky At present, the US-Iranian relationship is balanced precariously between situations of no peace and no war.
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