Iran’s Government Tries To Capitalize On Netanyahu Speech Tensions For Domestic Political Boost

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Iranian commentators devoted significant coverage to the tension ahead of the Israeli prime minister’s speech, with many citing the speech as evidence Israel has become increasingly isolated. This narrative helps bolster the domestic position of President Hassan Rouhani and his “realist” political allies, said Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington. “Rouhani and his cabinet are trying to take advantage of the differences between the U.S. and Israel to make the argument to the Iranian public that their statecraft has worked,” he said. “They’ll argue, ‘We managed to alienate the Israelis and Americans from each other. We managed to break the consensus between the U.S. and its allies against Iran.”
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