Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Elbridge A. Colby:

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Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Elbridge A. Colby: Iran can't compete with the United States. Iran is trying to use leverage over one particular thing. Iran no longer has the military power projection capability to even pretend to threaten those things. So we see the governments of the region actually, if anything, probably growing closer to the United States. Source: NYT