The Washington Post published an article Saturday with a headline saying that Iran hawks would have “less sway” in the next Trump administration, and then the article says this:
Trump’s election victory has meant that the GOP’s traditionalist foreign policy hawks — for whom Iran has long been a top focus — are ascendant once again [bold mine-DL], as the party prepares to take control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
To Tehran, the message from many of Trump’s surrogates has taken the form of a broad warning. Gone, they say, is the Democrats’ “weak” policy of appeasement. Prepare to be squeezed into submission.