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Neutralizing Iran Comes before Normalization with Saudi Arabia
(Israel Hayom) Meir Ben Shabbat - The U.S. under President Biden, which has sought to lower the profile of the Iranian problem and to remove the danger of a military confrontation with it as far as possible, is now seeing the tangible results of its policy: a growing sense of confidence in Iran, leading to defiant activity on its nuclear program, providing aid to Russia, and a significant increase in its efforts to promote acts of terrorism around the globe, owing to a feeling that it will not be required to pay any real price for all of this. Israel's current priority: neutralizing the existential threat posed by Iran, takes precedence even over normalization with Saudi Arabia. The writer, head of the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy, served as Israel's national security advisor and head of the National Security Council after 30 years in the Israel Security Agency.