US deploys nuclear submarine in Mideast amid Iran tension

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : President Bashar Al-Assad holds the most territory, with the support of Iran, its allied militias, and Russian forces, while Turkey and allied rebel groups control sections of the north and northwest.
56% :Worried that any of this might jeopardize its grand economic plans, Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter and Washington's main Gulf Arab ally, is now seeking cooperation with Iran, pivoting toward China, and forging a closer alliance with Moscow, especially on oil policy.
52% : Vakil said there was "a lot of hubris" in Tehran at the moment, with many elements of the regime feeling triumphant that they have not only withstood the U.S. policy of "encirclement and maximum pressure" but have actually now driven a wedge between the U.S. and its main Arab ally Saudi Arabia.
48% : The smaller Palestinian Islamic Jihad, fully supported by Iran, claimed responsibility for a barrage of rockets fired the day before at northern Israel from neighboring Lebanon, which is dominated by the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.
45% :Further fueling Washington's concerns was the decision by Saudi Arabia to join as "dialogue partner" the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a China-led security and defense bloc whose members include Iran and Russia.
41% : The United States military revealed Saturday that it has deployed a nuclear-powered submarine in the Middle East in a show of force amid rising tensions with Iran.
38% : It also comes in the context of an escalation in Israel's shadow war with Iran and major geopolitical shifts in the Middle East.
35% : Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the Chatham House think tank, says there's nothing contradictory between Iran seeking to repair ties with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab powers, while at the same time escalating its covert war against the U.S. and Israel.
32% : Kurilla said "Iran of 2023 is not the Iran of 1983," calling Tehran "exponentially more capable" of striking anywhere in the Middle East with the region's "largest and most diverse missile arsenal."

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