The Biden administration’s foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, needs a strategic rethink, as well as an injection of new ideas. This Washington Examiner series, Middle East Mirage, will investigate how the administration has fallen short on Iran engagement, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the push for a two-state solution, and sorely needed reform in the United Nations, particularly the UNRWA. Part One will look at how the administration still does not have a coherent strategy for Iran.

Four years ago, then-candidate Joe Biden campaigned on reentering the Iran nuclear agreement, which then-President Donald Trump withdrew from in a dramatic break of foreign policy from the Obama administration.