This week’s reprisals from Iran were not the end of the confrontation between Tehran and the Trump administration
Suzanne Maloney is deputy director of Brookings Foreign Policy and a former State Department official.
The sense that Washington and Tehran had stepped back from the brink prompted audible sighs of relief, and a British royal drama replaced World War III as the top trending news story on social media. Unfortunately, while the world’s war jitters have indeed subsided, the crisis itself is nowhere near over. , but rather the beginning of a new, more dangerous and unpredictable phase of the long-running U.S.-Iranian hostilities.Indeed, on Friday, U.S.
However, the recent track record only underscores why the U.S.-Iran confrontation is likely to escalate once again. Iran’s objective in its steady escalation since May—to compel an end to the Trump administration’s grueling economic sanctions that wreaked havoc on its economy—remains as pressing as ever, especially after massive protests rocked major cities around the country in November.
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