Excerpt Taken from Algemeiner by Algemeiner Staff.
Iran is pulling back from its latest confrontation with the US because it fears President Donald Trump, a top Israeli analyst asserted on Thursday.
Ehud Yaari, a veteran Israeli journalist and expert on the Middle East, wrote at the Israeli news site Mako that Iran was “reluctant to continue to clash with the US” and “taking a step back or maybe just a time out.”
The reason, said Yaari, was that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was “scared of Trump.”
“Although he mocks him, he also fears him,” Yaari noted.
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