Foreign Policy Failure in the Iran war may accelerate Washington s withdrawal from the Middle East

The journal “Foreign Policy” stated on Wednesday that the war waged by the US on Iran has exposed the limits of American influence in the Middle East and revived growing calls within Washington to end the American presence in the region, considering that the time has come for Washington to withdraw from its role as “security guarantor” that it has assumed for decades.
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This came in an article published by the magazine by a prominent researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations, Steven Cook, in which he affirmed that the military operation launched by US President Donald Trump on Iran under the name “Epic Fury” didn’t achieve any real strategic gain, despite Washington’s declaration of victory.
He pointed out that the terms of the memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran reflect a different reality, as the parties will return to negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program, with Tehran allowed to export oil for sixty days, while the future of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz remains shrouded in ambiguity.
Cook considered that Trump’s failure to achieve the war’s goals could lead to an opposite outcome, namely accelerating the American withdrawal from the region.
He expected that the American military presence would decline to a limited level, meaning practically the end of the Carter Doctrine, which governed American policy in the Gulf for long decades.