In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray.

The moves highlight the increased pressure that the Trump administration is under to ease soaring oil prices as the United States, along with Israel, wages a war with Iran without ...

The widening war in Iran is exposing big gaps at the State Department, especially in the bureau that handles the Middle East.

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