For Iran’s regional cooperation offer to work, more Middle Eastern nations need to achieve foreign policy independence.
Hillary Mann Leverett
Hillary Mann Leverett is the CEO of the political risk consultancy STRATEGA. She served in the US National Security Council and State Department under... Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W Bush. She is co-author of Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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