Nadia Massih welcomes Ali Vaez, Int’l Crisis Group’s Iran Project Director and Senior Adviser to the President. As the EU formally designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, the foundations of state-to-state diplomacy face an irreversible rupture. Meanwhile, the US weighs navy choices. Are we witnessing the unraveling of diplomacy or the start of an existential conflict between the West and the Islamic regime? Could Western coercion incite the regime to additional crush inner dissent and embark on a ‘warfare of survival’?
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