| 来源类型 | Op-Ed
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Trump is giving Iran more than it ever dreamed of |
| Kenneth Pollack
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| 发表日期 | 2019-09-26
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| 出处 | Foreign Policy
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | For the past six months, there has been plenty of reason to believe that Iran has primarily been motivated by fear, even desperation, in its confrontation with the United States. Lately, however, there are signs that Tehran has shifted to a strategy driven instead by a sense of opportunity and advantage. The trigger for this shift has been the Trump administration, whose misguided approach to Iran is on the cusp of splitting the United States from its Sunni Arab allies—a monumental geostrategic victory that Tehran has sought for 40 years.
Initially, Iran’s attacks on Gulf oil exports were almost certainly driven by fear and anger over the impact of the reimposed U.S. sanctions, which are devastating Iran’s economy and inflicting real hardship on average Iranians. The regime, even its hard-line elements, probably feared this would generate public protests and other problems for it. Tehran’s attacks on Gulf oil exports were likely meant to drive up the price of oil (which would be good for Iran, bad for the United States) and to create a crisis that would energize other countries to demand that Washington ease off the pressure on Iran. Iran’s attacks on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries were initially intended as a form of indirect pressure on the United States to get it to alleviate, or even eliminate, the sanctions.
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| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
; Middle East
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| 标签 | Iran
; Saudi Arabia
; Trump
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/op-eds/trump-is-giving-iran-more-than-it-ever-dreamed-of/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/210491
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