The U.S.-Iran conflict has acquired an air of inevitability.
The last ten years appear as a slow-motion prequel to a pre-destined outcome: War. While structural factors have helped push the two actors towards confrontation, there has never been anything inevitable about this conflict. Rather, a long series of miscalculated escalations have brought the two states to the current deadlock.
Iran and the United States are entrapped in a paradigm of enmity.
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