Dr. Clemens Chay

Researcher in the Geopolitical & Domestic Affairs of the Gulf Arab States

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Why Trump’s Coercive Diplomacy Should Now Focus on ‘Diplomacy’

President Donald Trump said that the US military carried out a “very successful attack” on three Iranian nuclear sites, including the underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordo. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan”, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. Photo: AFP

I write for the Middle East Institute-NUS on how US President Trump’s coercive diplomacy towards Iran should now focus on diplomatic efforts, following the exchange of blows between Tehran and Tel Aviv, which came to a head with US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Regime change, as the president threatened, will not be helpful as the ghosts of 2003 loom large.

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