Iran operating in altered ‘strategic environment’ amid domestic unrest and intense US pressure

Jean-Emile Jammine is pleased to welcome Dr Burcu Ozcelik, Senior Research Fellow for Middle East Security at RUSI. The landscape in the Middle East has vastly changed since the 12-day war. Dr Ozcelik sees a strategic misreading at play on the part of Iran failing to grasp the recalibrated thresholds domestically, regionally and across the globe. And now the US is willing to apply a maximalist pressure strategy involving military, economic, and diplomatic levers to extract more than mere nuclear compliance.   … Original Article