Fareed discusses some of the many foreign policy challenges facing the incoming Trump administration with Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

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The treaty will "formalize the parties' commitment to close defense cooperation," Russia's foreign minister said in late October.

After Assad's regime was toppled in Syria, Iran and Russia seem to have suffered the biggest setback. Moscow and Tehran see West coming closer to Syria, which used to be closely intricated with their geopolitical aspirations.

Israel is closely following contacts between senior Iranian and Russian officials amid fears that in exchange for Iran's extensive assistance to Russia's war effort in Ukraine, Moscow will provide Iran with the technology to turn the enriched uranium into a nuclear warhead.

The fate of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran and an Iranian engineer imprisoned in Italy on a U.S. warrant have grown even more intertwined

Hossein Shamkhani, whose father is a senior figure in Tehran, has emerged as a major player in the supply of Iranian arms to Russia, according to US officials and people familiar with his dealings.

Israel must strike Iran now, hitting high-value targets within the Islamic Republic, in order to provide the second Trump administration with leverage over the New Eurasian Axis and to end the radical clerics' rule.

Richard Haass is President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Senior Counselor at Centerview Partners, and the author of a weekly newsletter, Home & Away.

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The return of Donald Trump to the White House suggests a renewed confrontation between the USA and Iran. Trump's associates propose a "maximum pressure policy" and severe economic sanctions. However,