The System, Not the Centrifuges

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A Small Wars Journal article discusses the persistent conflict rooted in the 1979 US Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran. It highlights that while nuclear enrichment efforts might cease, other conflict mechanisms such as missiles, proxies, and maritime tensions will continue to perpetuate the long-standing confrontation.

A settlement that ends enrichment but preserves missiles, proxies, and maritime leverage will not end the conflict. It will reschedule it. Abstract Forty-seven years after Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, the confrontation that began there has never ended. It has only changed shape. Hostages became roadside bombs. Roadside bombs became proxies. Proxies became drones, cyber intrusions into … Read more The post The System, Not the Centrifuges appeared first on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University.