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Simon Sebag Montefiore: Who Will Rule the Middle East?

The Free Press · Sep 8, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC

The Middle East has confounded generations of diplomats and intelligence chiefs. Its history offers few predictions, but plenty of warnings about what happens when great powers misread it, writes Simon Sebag Montefiore.

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