US Must Prevent Establishment of Iranian ‘Land Bridge’ to Mediterranean, New Think Tank Paper Urges
(Worthy News) – Iran is seeking to build a “land bridge” to extend the reach of its influence all the way to the Mediterranean Sea, and “disrupting” this corridor should be a priority of the United States, a paper published on Tuesday by the Washington, DC-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank said.
The paper, authored by David Adesnik and Benham Ben Taleblu, respectively director of research and a senior fellow at FDD, with a forward penned by former US National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, chairman of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power, also asserted that while the US needed to prevent the establishment of the “land bridge,” it must at the same time avoid “a myopic focus” on it that would lead to overlooking wider Iranian ambitions is the region. [ Source: Algemeiner (Read More…) ]