Awkward triangle: America, GCC and Iran
Camp David seems to have gone as well as it could. Expectations were managed beforehand so well that the readout could only be positive. Gulf leaders got the maximum they could achieve, a missile defence system, an annual summit and Carter doctrine 1.5; in return, Obama got tacit support for the nuclear deal. The overused comparison made between the Iranian nuclear agreement and the historic formal normalisation of relations between the US and China has always seemed odd and not in tune with current administration’s global outlook of ‘don’t ...
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