As Trita Parsi , Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute , warns, we are facing an “extremely dangerous situation.” Both the United States and Iran now have political incentives to escalate rather than de-escalate. That is a combustible formula.
When domestic pressures reward toughness and punish restraint, diplomacy becomes politically risky while confrontation becomes convenient. Miscalculation, not strategy, often lights the fuse of war. History shows how quickly tit-for-tat actions spiral beyond anyone’s control.
Leaders in Washington and Tehran must recognize that escalation may serve short-term optics but carries catastrophic long-term costs—human, economic and geopolitical. The region, and the world, cannot afford another preventable conflict.
Statesmanship requires courage: the courage to talk, to compromise and to step back from the brink. Anything less invites disaster.
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