Nadia Massih welcomes Ali Vaez, Director of the International Crisis Group’s Iran Project and Senior Advisor to the President. While the EU officially designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, the foundations of interstate diplomacy face an irreversible blow. Meanwhile, the US is weighing military options. Are we witnessing the unraveling of diplomacy or the beginning of an existential conflict between the West and the Islamic regime? Could Western coercion push the regime to further crush internal dissent and engage in a ‘war for survival’?



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