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Russia’s Lebanese Matryoshka Doll

The Russian initiative comes in the midst of the nuclear talks in Vienna and with the pressure on the Iranian regime from Israeli strikes and military operations - most recently the attack on Iran’s nuclear facility in Natanz and daily airstrikes that target Iran’s militias in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.

Biden’s Recalibration of Saudi Relations Could Spell the End of MBS

Biden can utilize this leverage to demand gradual, substantial concessions and meaningful reforms from MBS, such as ending the war on Yemen, releasing political prisoners and royal family members, easing restrictions on freedoms of speech, association, and expression, ending the army of electronic flies, allowing the emergence of independent media and political parties, increasing the independence of the judiciary, and delegating more decision-making authorities to other members of government.