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Questions are resurfacing in Washington about whether U.S. policy toward Iran is drifting back toward the kind of arrangement associated with the Obama administration.
Reports of a White House idea involving the Chagos Islands have revived an old strategic question: what is the most durable way to secure long-term access to a remote but important island chain in the Indian Ocean. The suggestion circulating publicly is that Washington might try to purchase the islands, a concept that can sound straightforward in theory but runs into serious practical barriers once the real-world constraints are considered.
For years, American strategy in the Middle East has leaned heavily on two pillars in the Gulf: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Both governments are central to U.S.
