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The Mirage of a New Middle East: War With Iran Won't Reshape the Region the Way America Wants
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The Mirage of a New Middle East
War With Iran Won’t Reshape the Region the Way America Wants
Dalia Dassa Kaye
March 6, 2026
After a strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran, March 2026
Majid Asgaripour / West Asia News Agency / Reuters
DALIA DASSA KAYE is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and the author of Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy.
Eager to show that he can do what no American leader has done before, President Donald Trump has chosen conflict over diplomacy and gone to war with Iran. The Islamic Republic, knowing that this fight is existential, retaliated quickly with deadly missile and drone attacks on Israel, U.S. bases in the Middle East, and targets in Gulf states and beyond. This is now a regional war with global impact, disrupting oil and financial markets, supply chains, maritime commerce, and air travel. Threats to Americans and the death toll in Iran mount by the hour. These growing risks were predictable ...
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War With Iran Won’t Reshape the Region the Way America Wants
Dalia Dassa Kaye
March 6, 2026
After a strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran, March 2026
Majid Asgaripour / West Asia News Agency / Reuters
DALIA DASSA KAYE is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and the author of Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy.
Eager to show that he can do what no American leader has done before, President Donald Trump has chosen conflict over diplomacy and gone to war with Iran. The Islamic Republic, knowing that this fight is existential, retaliated quickly with deadly missile and drone attacks on Israel, U.S. bases in the Middle East, and targets in Gulf states and beyond. This is now a regional war with global impact, disrupting oil and financial markets, supply chains, maritime commerce, and air travel. Threats to Americans and the death toll in Iran mount by the hour. These growing risks were predictable ...
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