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A Biden Revolution in the Middle East Will Have to Wait
His presidency would stress human rights, but he knows you can only achieve so much with dictators. He likes the Iranian nuclear agreement, but that deal depends on who’s in power in Iran and Israel
Even before the electoral votes indicated a possible victory for Joe Biden, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi made sure this week to set free hundreds of political prisoners who had been jailed since 2014. A certain Biden tweet from July – “No more blank checks for Trump’s ‘favorite dictator’” – was still ringing in Sissi’s ears.
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