The war on Iran is deemed incoherent and based on faulty assumptions, according to Author Barbara Slavin. Diplomatic alternatives were dismissed, and intelligence warnings were inadequately considered. Military actions have strengthened hardline elements within the Iranian regime, destabilizing the global economy.

Carys Garland is pleased to welcome Barbara Slavin, Author and Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center. According to Slavin, the war on Iran is not a coherent strategic endeavour, and reflects a pattern in which rhetoric trumps reality. Rather than emerging from necessity, diplomatic alternatives were dismissed and intelligence warnings inadequately considered. Slavin warns military actions have strengthened hardline elements within the Iranian regime and has destabilised the global economy. ...