Restraint didn’t prevent war; new Iranian leadership may now look to much more dangerous approach to build a deterrent.


Sina Toossi is a senior nonresident fellow at the Center for International Policy. He writes on US-Iran relations, Iranian politics and society and nu... clear nonproliferation. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera English, among other outlets.
Restraint didn’t prevent war; new Iranian leadership may now look to much more dangerous approach to build a deterrent.

Iran’s monarchists have moved closer to Israel, which they see as a key ally in their fight to reinstate the Pahlavis.
