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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/18/irans-leadership-believes-escalation-can-pay-off/
Iran's Leadership Thinks Escalation Can Pay Off
(Washington Post) Suzanne Maloney - The attack on Saudi oil facilities is straight out of the playbook that Iran has employed since May. Provoking a crisis is a time-honored Iranian strategy. Iran calculates that targeting U.S. allies and interests would generate diplomatic leverage that could be used in any future negotiations, inject urgency among world powers, and dissuade its neighbors from cooperating with Washington's pressure campaign. The writer is deputy director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution.