US Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden chose California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate today. In her time in the Senate, Harris has taken positions on the Middle East that line up with Biden’s and the Democratic establishment. 

On Iran, a spokesman for Harris told Al-Monitor last year that she would rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal if elected president. (She dropped out of the presidential race in December). US President Barack Obama, under whom Biden served as vice president, negotiated the deal aimed at ending Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon diplomatically. Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed harsh sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Harris has also voted against US military sales to Saudi Arabia and opposes the Gulf country’s war on Iran-backed forces in Yemen.

On Syria, Harris criticized Trump for allowing Turkey to attack US-backed Kurdish forces in northeast Syria last year. In a presidential debate in November, she hammered Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for refusing to label Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a “war criminal."