As the conflict expands, threatening to engulf the entire Middle East, the region needs someone with working connections to all parties

The Middle East has seen many crises that began as ‘limited’ operations and turned into open-ended wars.

The familiar pattern is not caused by miscalculation alone, but by geography and structure; once the first missiles fly, the region’s tightly interlinked security and economic systems pull neighboring states into the blast radius. What is happening around Iran today fits this logic with disturbing clarity. The US-Israeli strike campaign may have been conceived as a short, high-intensity effort, but the…

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