US/IRAN: Tensions unlikely to stoke military conflict
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- Growing tensions
- Threatened allies
- Competing administration views
- Israel's influence
- Poor policy options
- Military strike?
- Pentagon reluctance
- Cost-benefit doubts
- Israeli impotence
- Diplomatic stalemate
- Naval escalation
- Cultivating allies
- US-Saudi rapprochement
- Iraq 'proxy war'?
- Unintentional military confrontation?
- Iranian climb-down?
- No direct engagement
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