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Opaque nature of US&Iran shadow war: Are they 'dancing their way out of a minefield' towards a deal?
François Picard welcomes Peter Apps, a global defence commentator who writes a bi-weekly column for Reuters on national security, conflict, international affairs and technology. Rather than casting the current state of US-Iran tensions as a binary shift between war and peace, Apps outlines a more fluid and volatile reality, where ceasefire and escalation unfold simultaneously: "Both (conflict and negotiations) will keep running."
François Picard welcomes Peter Apps, a global defence commentator who writes a bi-weekly column for Reuters on national security, conflict, international affairs and technology. Rather than casting the current state of US-Iran tensions as a binary shift between war and peace, Apps outlines a more fluid and volatile reality, where ceasefire and escalation unfold simultaneously: "Both (conflict and negotiations) will keep running."
