'Trump's high-stakes political theatre: US winning conventional war, Iran winning asymmetrical war'

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Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Dr. William Lawrence, Senior Academic and Research Fellow-in-Residence and the Director of the North African Area Studies Program at the National Council on US-Arab Relations.

As a former US diplomat in the Muslim world, he views what we are witnessing as a deliberate embrace of chaos and unpredictability as a coercive tool.

Yet such theatrical instability carries diminishing returns when used as a modus operandi, explains Dr. Lawrence. "Trump thinks he can force Iran to the table by being hyperbolic, apocalyptic and chaotic.

Iranians, in turn, respond with so much mockery and bravado."Ā 
#Iran #Trump #USA

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