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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : A 2018 file picture shows Ali Shamkhani speaking during the first meeting of national security secretaries in the Iranian capital Tehran.
53% : After the detente with Saudi Arabia, Tehran is also on track to improve its diplomatic relations with other neighbours across the region while also increasingly cosying up to Russia and China, as its ally Syria has also been welcomed back into the Arab League.
53% : At an address on national security that turned out to be his farewell speech, Shamkhani said the world order is changing and Iran needs to adapt its macro policies to it.
50% : In a meeting last week with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Iran's ambassadors in other countries, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also alluded to a changing world order, saying it will be a "rough process filled with unexpected events" that Iran needs to gear up for.
44% : He also discussed the so-called "axis of resistance" of forces that are supported by Iran across the region, saying: "The current circumstances can turn out to be in favour of the axis of resistance, but we must not turn the doctrine of resistance into a doctrine of domination."
42% : An Iranian insider said the change in leadership at the Supreme National Security Council was unlikely to have an impact on its policies and that Shamkhani might be considered for a "more important position" in Iran.
41% : Relations with the West, however, remain highly confrontational, amid stalled efforts to restore Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and after protests rocked Iran last September.

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