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Home / US-Israel-Iran / Iran’s secret outreach highlights Trump’s challenge
US‑Israel‑Iran, Iran, Israel, Israel‑Iran, Middle East

March 4, 2026

Iran’s secret outreach highlights Trump’s challenge

“There’s a low likelihood that a successor state would be a liberal democracy friendly to the United States—given that it was forged in a war with the United States,” said Rosemary Kelanic, the director of the Middle East program at Defense Priorities, a group generally opposed to U.S. foreign interventions.

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