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During the presidency of Barack Obama (2009-2017), official Washington identified priority aspects of Middle East policy: preventing the development of nuclear energy by the Iranian leadership and achieving a final peaceful settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The response to the White House's readiness for diplomatic negotiations with the Iranian side without putting forward preliminary conditions was the unwillingness of the Iranian leaders to participate in the negotiation process on curtailing the development of the national nuclear program. As for the Palestinian-Israeli peace settlement, even here, despite a number of positive steps by the American administration, the parties failed to achieve tangible results at the negotiating table.

The annexation of Kuwait by Iraq on the night of august 1-2, 1990 and the ensuing operation of the international coalition of countries led by the United States «Desert Storm» on 17 January, 1991 radically altered the entire interval political situation in the Middle East region having made official Washington the dominant power in the Gulf region. After the victorious completion of the Iraqi operation the USA president George H. W. Bush speaking in the United States Congress on 11 September, 1991 announced about the advent of a «new political order». The openly pro-American political position of Russian leader Boris Yeltsin also unequivocally testified to the establishment of a unipolar world.