Turmoil in the Middle East Is Setting Up Some Strange Bedfellows

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“The Gaza War has been a gift to Khamenei,” says Ali Alfoneh, an Iran researcher and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy. “Ever since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria, Tehran has quietly labored to find a magic formula to secure the survival of the Assad regime while not alienating Palestinian Sunni militants,” he said. Now that Tehran is more confident in Assad’s future survival, it is looking to “rekindle relations with Hamas.”

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