US Takes Stock of Its Bombings in Iran and Warns Against Escalation

The Trump administration is urging Iran to pursue peace, and warning against retaliation, after carrying out strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. . . . “The Iranians don’t have the cards right now,” said Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran and a scholar at the Middle East Institute’s Iran Program. “Their nuclear program is destroyed. So I think the United States is going to want to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program, and it was trying to force the Islamic Republic to make a choice. It can preserve its regime or dismantle its nuclear program, and this is part of that equation. I think that the President wants to escalate it to de-escalate.”