**Donald Trump will not want to bring the U.S. into direct conflict with Iran but at the same time 1 can forget about reactivation of the atomic agreement (JCPOA), which puts the effectiveness of the policy towards Iran at issue. The precedence of the mediate east Trump policy will be to normalize Israeli-Saudi relations, but this will be hard with the current separation of Netanyahu from reality. The fresh president will besides search to halt escalation in Turkish-Israeli relations.**