Nadia Massih welcomes Ali Vaez, Director of the Iran Project and International Crisis Group Senior Advisor. 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 military options. Are we witnessing the unraveling of diplomacy or the beginning of an existential clash between the West and the Islamic regime? Could Western coercion incite the regime to further crush internal dissent and embark on a ‘war of survival’?
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