The United States could resume active warfare against Iran "within the next 24 to 48 hours." It appears highly probable that the United States will resume military operations against Iran within the next one to two days, stated Mohamad Elmasry, a professor of Media Studies at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies.
This rapid escalation is manifesting because Trump is "operating under intense pressure from multiple competing factions," including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as "highly dogmatic, hawkish figures" embedded within his own administration, Elmasry informed Al Jazeera.
"He has failed to extract the structural capitulation he demanded from the Iranians and fully expected to receive," Elmasry stated, adding that Trump "simultaneously expected the broader diplomatic negotiations to yield a different trajectory," having harbored immense strategic expectations during his recent summit in China with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
Elmasry evaluated that while it would be wise for Trump to terminate the war at this point, given that it has proved to be a "genuine catastrophe for him" and for the US on both political and macroeconomic levels, it remains highly improbable that he will choose that path. "This is because Trump can no longer return to the American electorate with a credible, clean declaration of victory."
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