Saudis 'furious': Trump ‘flips & flops’ between deal with Iran and ‘attacks in devastating fashion’
François Picard is pleased to welcome Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center.
She describes the US-Iran conflict as a dangerous combination of military escalation, diplomatic ambiguity and political calculation.
Slavin sees an absence of true diplomacy: The recent indirect contacts between Washington and Tehran, mediated by Qatar, has been too limited and too fragile to produce any serious breakthrough.
For her, this amounts to “kabuki diplomacy”: they half engage while positioning themselves against any appearance of compromise.
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