Hussein Banai
Hussein Banai is an associate professor of international studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of “Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran” (2020) and co-author of “Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988” (2014) and “Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the U.S.-Iran Conflict” (2022).
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The Last Temptation of Trump at the End of a Failed War
Trump has backed himself into a corner with Iran. Any deal risks appearing, in his eyes, like a humiliating failure, one his opponents will mock. He knows this. His opponents know this. The weight of that constraint presents a dangerous equation as the president threatens escalation.