{"id":268053,"date":"2022-12-21T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=268053"},"modified":"2023-01-28T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T21:48:11","slug":"there-will-be-no-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/blog\/op-ed\/there-will-be-no-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will be No War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By: Alejo Vidal-Quadras<\/strong><\/p>\n

The invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, might have become a historic landmark to reject any preventive conventional warfare, at least in the Western world. After the embarrassment of not finding any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq and after almost two decades of bloodshed, destruction, and devastation with far-reaching global consequences<\/a>, one might conclude that the \u201cNever Again\u201d moment today is as rock solid as following WWII in 1945.<\/p>\n

For better or for worse, the Iraq war changed the course of history. While this was good news that no leader in the civilized world, nor any legislator wants to pave the way for war, the political spectrum became plagued with the \u2018war hysteria\u2019 from which it was suffering after WWI as well. This worldview is always poised to lead to a dominant appeasement policy and tyrannical regimes know how to exploit it best.<\/p>\n

One of the countries whose name has long been tied with warfare in modern history has been Iran. An eastern neighbor of Iraq, it was pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program for almost two decades until it was exposed by<\/a> the Iranian opposition group the Peoples Mojahedin Organization (PMOI\/MEK). Had the regime gone nuclear, the geostrategic calculus today would look different.<\/p>\n

Ever since the country has been at odds with the IAEA and the UN Security Council over its nuclear program. For the West, the clerical regime in Iran has always posed a convergence of complex and intertwined crises with no solution in sight and the nuclear dossier is just one of the many.<\/p>\n

Prior to the new wave of protests<\/a> that has shaken Tehran, there were in Washington some particular think tanks and so-called Iran experts that were pushing the Biden administration to show flexibility and accept Tehran\u2019s terms at all costs. Absent an agreement with the regime, the US is doomed to go to war again, they argued. These voices, cast themselves as genuine pacifists. Or are they?<\/p>\n

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#LIVE<\/a>: NCRI-US Panel on Growing Threat from #Iran<\/a>'s Regime, Snapback of UN Sanctions. https:\/\/t.co\/CP8uxocrZP<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-U.S. Rep Office (@NCRIUS) June 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n