Iran and region’s ‘conflict dynamic’ downgraded in new National Security Strategy
FPI / December 11, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Though Iran remains the Middle East’s “chief destabilizing force,” it has been “greatly weakened by Israeli actions since October 7, 2023, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s June 2025 Operation Midnight Hammer” and thus has been downgraded in Trump’s latest National Security Strategy. The new strategy document, released on Dec. […]