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<title><![CDATA[Yaroslav Trofimov - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21047.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Yaroslav Trofimov]]></description><category domain="21047">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Time Is No Longer on Iran&rsquo;s Side]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/time-is-no-longer-on-irans-side-in-the-battle-of-the-blockades-e47b657d?st=iDK6az</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yaroslav Trofimov</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By squeezing the Strait of Hormuz, both the U.S. and Iran expected to outlast their foe, believing time would work in their favor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Assad's Downfall Marks a New Realignment in Middle East]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Yaroslav Trofimov</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Turkey gains, Russia and Iran lose sway and Syrians hope a new round of civil war can be averted]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Crisis of Political Islam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-crisis-of-political-islam-1469223880</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yaroslav Trofimov</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First Egypt and now Turkey show the perils of ideological religious parties (and strongman rule)]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Fading Footprint in the Middle East]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-fading-footprint-in-the-middle-east-1444411954</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yaroslav Trofimov</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despised by some, admired by others, the U.S. has been the Middle East'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s principal power for decades, providing its allies with guidance and protection.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Now, however, with Russia and Iran thrusting themselves boldly into the region'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s affairs, that special role seems to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Rebuilds Plant, Taliban Reap Windfall]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Yaroslav Trofimov</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'The U.S. has poured more than $100 million into upgrading the Kajaki hydropower plant, the biggest source of electricity in south Afghanistan. And it plans on spending much more, in an effort to woo local sympathies away from the Taliban insurgency.Yet, one...]]></description>
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