Intro:
In early August 22, the US Director of National Intelligence published this report announcing that several states have their own preferences regarding the US elections and they might try to manipulate American public opinion. And in this publication, Iran was mentioned as the country that prefers Biden instead of Donald Trump, which if an argument was used by president Trump without naming this, this report, who said, definitely Iran prefers Joe Biden to become the president.
Interestingly, several Iranian experts agreed with the U S national intelligence director. One of them was Ali Umidi from Isfahan university who said in an interesting commentary to a Western newspaper that the Iranian people and the elite preferred Biden over Donald trump because he mentioned that Trump is an existential threat to Iran. I’m not sure if all our panelists agree with with this preposition, but according to Ali Umidi, only a marginalized, hawkish,conservative community in Iran prefers Trump instead of Joe Biden, because they consider that Trump’s victory could strengthen Iran’s conservative policies and isolationism without another functioning or malfunctioning deal with Western States. In a rather criticized commentary, the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman said yesterday that, to a Emirati newspaper by the way, which is the most interesting part of the story, that Biden’s election could undermine the US policy and US efforts against Iran. This comment was criticized because it came from a diplomat who was not supposed to make these remarks. As we all know, two aspects of the U S policy regarding Iran are taking attention these days. And one of them is the rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf States, specifically the UAE and Bahrain, which signed an agreement with Israel, which is also considered an agreement that is part of the U S policy of encircling Iran, which can also lead to a possible Israeli presence in the Gulf.