“Only a military intervention at this point could level the playing field,” exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi declared Monday. “This is the reason why the Iranian people have been anxiously awaiting the action that the President has promised he will do in support of the Iranian people, that help will arrive, just hang in there.”

“And they have,” the son of the late shah said. “And they hope that this president will stay true to his word as he has always demonstrated, and that he’s no Barack Obama.”

Also on Monday, Professor Daniel Schueftan of Haifa University, “Israel’s Henry Kissinger,” invoked the same name: Obama. Asked about President Donald Trump’s grasp of the complex and often dark corners of Middle Eastern conflict, Schueftan said, “Trump has the right instincts. And mostly what he did in the Middle East was very helpful for the whole region.”

“Think of the Abraham Accords,” Schueftan said. “Think of the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And the support he had for Israel when Israel needed not only to assert its power, not only to destroy the terrorists, but also to deter them from the immediate next step.”

“But so far,” this pillar of the Israeli national security establishment concluded, “his instincts about the Middle East were correct, and he was certainly not the kind of naïve president that we had in Jimmy Carter and in Barack Obama.”

The exiled crown prince of Iran and Israel’s Henry Kissinger, in interviews given within an hour of each other, brought up,........

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