A US professor cautions that recent diplomacy with Iran has made little progress, despite market pressure and geopolitical signaling. This approach misunderstands Iran's resilience and divergent US and Israeli objectives.

Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Scott Lucas, Professor of American Studies and International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin. Mr. Lucas warns there has been no breakthrough whatsoever in diplomacy: An improvised and reactive process shaped by market pressures, geopolitical signalling, and misread assumptions about regime fragility is disguised as decisive action. The expectation that escalation will produce capitulation misunderstands both the resilience of the ...