Sisi Faces Modest Fury Over Iran War

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is built for crisis. He seized power through a military coup after a year of Muslim Brotherhood rule and has spent more than a decade navigating economic collapse, political unrest, and wars bleeding across nearly every border Egypt shares.

His singular promise to Egyptians is that whatever chaos surrounds them, order at home would hold. Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli attack against Iran, is now testing that promise in ways that Sisi cannot easily manage.

Mariam Wahba is a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. X: @themariamwahba.