{"id":47186,"date":"2024-10-31T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/how-the-us-election-could-impact-the-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T06:25:00","slug":"how-the-us-election-could-impact-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=47186","title":{"rendered":"How the US election could impact the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On wider regional issues like Iran, the two candidates have historically had different approaches with Trump recently advising Israel to \u201chit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was speaking before Israel carried out strikes on Iran in retaliation for an Iranian missile attack earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cMaybe Trump would play more hardball, and the Iranians would be more hesitant if he was president,\u201d said former Israeli ambassador to the US, Danny Ayalon, but he says it is easy to overstate the differences between the two candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both Harris and Trump are now talking about making a new deal to block Iran\u2019s path to a nuclear weapon, and both want to expand the normalisation agreements between Israel and neighbouring Arab countries \u2013 in particular Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What would be different is their approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI think if it\u2019s Kamala Harris [in the White House], the direction will be bottom-up,\u201d said Danny Ayalon, meaning that ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon would come first, before turning to the bigger questions of Iran or new regional alliances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Trump, he says, \u201cthe direction would be top-down &#8211; he will go straight to Tehran and from there, try to sort out all the different prongs and theatres throughout the Middle East\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2yv9k3mpmo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On wider regional issues like Iran, the two candidates have historically had different approaches with Trump&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1558,227,1472,2016],"class_list":["post-47186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-east","tag-election","tag-impact","tag-middle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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