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Iran Week Two

Emma Ashford · 11 Mar 2026

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  1. Our reading

    In the Gulf, the United States has gone from firefighter to arsonist.

    Their wordsThere’s going to be some great studies written about this era, but one factor I think is currently underplayed is how much the United States, which was always assumed in such studies to be the firefighter for crisis in the Gulf, has instead become the arsonist.

  2. Our reading

    The 2026 war on Iran shows the utter failure of the hawkish maximum-pressure strategy.

    Their wordsThus far, the central conclusion I am drawing from this war is the utter failure of the hawkish “maximum pressure” strategy against Iran.

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