As Washington and Israel prepare strikes after the midterm elections and Tehran threatens regional infrastructure, escalating this conflict will yield uncalculated blowback rather than stability.
As Tehran sends demands to Washington ahead of the General Assembly, the administration substitutes diplomatic theater for strategy while naval blockades and high oil prices grind on.
When a regime’s central pillar is violently removed—in this case, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in US-Israeli airstrikes—the immediate assumption is that the resulting chaos will…