President Biden’s actions in the Middle East this week may have unwanted consequences. “Shaking the hand of a murderer is bad,” a former C.I.A. staffer said, “but going to war with Iran is insanity.”
of the global oil supply passes through the Gulf. Iranian media reported that the drone deployment was a “welcome to Biden.”Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
from its list of terrorist groups, one of the main outstanding issues in the nuclear talks. Trump had put the Revolutionary Guard on the list, an act the U.S. has never taken toward another country’s armed forces. His designation was meaningless in practical terms—the Revolutionary Guard and many of its leaders were alreadyfor missile proliferation, supporting terrorism, and human-rights abuses. None of those sanctions would be lifted if the deal is revived. But delisting the I.R.G.C.
The long-simmering confrontation between Washington and Tehran, dating back to the seizure of the U.S. Embassy and dozens of American hostages, in 1979, has evolved again into a tangible crisis. Shortly after the Jerusalem Declaration was released, Bruce Riedel, a former C.I.A., Pentagon, and National Security Council staffer, e-mailed me, “We are committed to war with Iran.”
Iran lashed back quickly. “The great nation of Iran will not accept any insecurity or crisis in the region,” President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line critic of U.S. policy,
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