Maximum Pressure: Are Trump’s Middle East Policies Starting to Yield Results?

Moscow and Ankara, especially to try to isolate Iran. The "maximum pressure" campaign against Tehran is starting to yield striking results, notably on the financial front. A new team is coalescing in the Trump administration to coordinate these new approaches to Syria and Iran – and the Russian and Turkish roles in those countries – and develop an integrated strategy for dealing with the northern arc of the Middle East.
AGSIW is pleased to host Raghida Dergham, founder and executive chairman of the Beirut Institute, and Andrew Peek, deputy assistant secretary of state for Iran and Iraq at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, to explain and analyze these vital but little-understood developments in U.S. Middle East policy.