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The Middle East Is Ready for the Abraham Accords 2.0
Zineb Riboua
March 12, 2026

…[Pete] Hegseth described Iran’s isolation as a military outcome, but it was in fact a structural inevitability—one confirmed when U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz announced on Wednesday that Washington stood with its Gulf Arab allies in a unanimous Security Council vote condemning Iran for its attacks on civilians across the region. By accelerating a regional realignment already underway, Operation Epic Fury has handed Washington a rare strategic opportunity: the establishment of an Abraham Accords 2.0, elevating normalized relations between Israel and the Gulf States from diplomatic symbolism into an integrated security architecture. To understand why this moment is so consequential, one must first understand that Iran has spent years trying to combat the regional order established by the 2020 Abraham Accords. READ MORE