Jared Kushner

I think they've been working now to get it back.

They, after two years, started working with Saudi and Israel, which I think was good.

I think that they realized after a stint that maybe the process that President Trump had created in the region was the right policy.

And keep in mind, President Trump's policy was

that I was working on was very strongly criticized during the first three years before we were able to achieve the results because it was departure from the failed policies of the past.

And so first there was a return to those policies, appease Iran, let's criticize Saudi Arabia.

Then they started embracing and working on the Israel-Saudi deal, which was really exciting.

I think we were all very excited about it.

But they did it in public.

And I think that that also was something, and I didn't have access to their intelligence.

So I assumed that by doing it so publicly, they thought that they'd either had a deal with Iran because they were letting them get all this revenue where Iran wouldn't be a problem.

But one of the reasons with the Abraham Accords, we kept it so quiet during the whole time was because we always felt like

the troublemakers in the region, particularly Iran, who we thought would be disadvantaged by having UAE, Saudi, Israel all together.

Israel's a nuclear power.

You have other strong economies.

Iran seeks instability.

They seek looking to create division in the region.

And if you can create that economic sphere where you have security from Haifa to Muscat, from Israel to Oman, all the way through with Saudi, Jordan, UAE, Qatar,

Egypt, that's an incredibly powerful block.

If you can make it secure and then get economic integration, that really could be a Middle East that thrives.