Dina Esfandiari
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and Iran.
And the main decision maker on this front right now really is President Trump.
But I think Israel is playing a huge role in trying to sway Trump, in trying to really convince him either to go to war or to have a very maximalist position in the nuclear negotiations.
And bizarrely, compared to a few years ago when the first nuclear deal was being negotiated, it's the U.S.
's Gulf Arab partners that are actually urging restraint, that are saying, we don't want war because we don't know what will happen once the fighting starts.
I think if you had asked me this question six months ago, seven months ago, I would have said, I think there's a chance we can keep it short because the Iranians don't want to escalate further.
They don't want to fight a war they know they're going to lose.
I think today the issue is really existential for Iran.
So they have no incentive to not escalate
Their incentive is the opposite.
Escalate, throw everything we have at the problem and see what we can do, how to get the U.S.
bogged down further in the region, impact oil markets by shooting at oil and energy infrastructure in the region, potentially closing the Straits of Hormuz.
And once that happens, it's absolutely impossible to keep this short.
So, Dina, I guess if we step back and say perhaps a strategy for the U.S.
would be regime change because anything short of that seems inconsequential relative to the assets that are being deployed there.
Well, for sure, that could be an option.
But then the problem is the assets that are deployed there are not enough.
It's going to be virtually impossible to change the system from overhead.
You're going to have to put boots on the ground.
And I don't think any American president wants to put boots on the ground in Iran.
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