{"id":1323,"date":"2026-06-28T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:03:57","slug":"americas-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/americas-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Iran Debate Is Based on a False Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By Raghu Kondori | Shahvand Think Tank, in The Times of Israel<!--more--><\/h2>\n<p>America\u2019s Iran debate continues to revolve around a familiar binary: engagement or confrontation. Across administrations, congressional hearings, and think tank circles, these poles define the limits of policy thinking. Yet this framework no longer reflects either Iran\u2019s internal trajectory or the strategic realities of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/americas-iran-debate-is-based-on-a-false-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Times of Israel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Raghu Kondori | Shahvand Think Tank, in The Times of Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,12,15,25,271],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-raghu-kondori","tag-the-times-of-israel"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/TOI-Trump.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}