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Amid swirling rumors that President Donald Trump and his administration are plotting a “massive” renewed military assault on Iran, experts who spoke with The Hill dumped cold water on the idea, warning that such a thing likely would not be enough to subdue Iran.<\/p>\n

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In a report published Saturday morning, The Hill cited conversations with various foreign affairs and defense experts who warned about the efficacy of “an intensified air strike campaign” against Iran, even one that might, as Trump has threatened repeatedly, target “bridges, water facilities and electricity plants.” They warned that even this sort of plan would not be enough to extract major concessions from Iran in the ongoing peace talks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it will change Iran\u2019s calculation in any way, because from Iran\u2019s perspective, this is when they said it publicly, that this is a war of survival for them. So bombing from the air is not going to change Iran\u2019s calculation, even if the U.S. intensifies it,\u201d Sina Azodi, director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Washington University, told the outlet. \u201cThe only thing that will happen is that, first of all, the entire region is going to suffer more. The Iranians have made it very clear. I think it destroys any chance of diplomacy.\u201d <\/p>\n

He added: “You can\u2019t just do a ceasefire. You need a comprehensive agreement that it\u2019s language is no longer open to interpretation. And quite frankly, U.S. has to, when it makes a commitment, it needs to abide by it.”<\/p>\n

Another source, described as an anonymous “former senior U.S. defense official, told The Hill that airstrikes are unlikely to yield any meaningful progress, and argued that it would be impossible “without collectively enforcing the naval blockade, securing to some degree the traffic going through the Strait of Hormuz and absorbing some of the international economic cost as a long-term strategy.”<\/p>\n

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“But you\u2019re not going to bomb yourself into a ceasefire,” they said. “I think you\u2019ve got to be able to put the economic instrument of power just as make it just as significant as what you\u2019re doing [militarily].”<\/p>\n

Michael \u201cMick\u201d Mulroy, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, also cast doubt on the efficacy of heavy airstrikes, but also noted that the options left to the U.S. at this point “aren\u2019t good.”<\/p>\n

“If we allow them to sell their oil, if we unfreeze assets, they\u2019re going to use it to rebuild those capacities potentially faster than we really rebuild the precision munitions and interceptors that we use during a conflict, and we have to get into a new nuclear agreement,” Mulroy explained. “If we don\u2019t, then this, at least from the nuclear side, would be a perpetual conflict, because the other way of preventing them from ever getting a nuclear weapon is to periodically target the facilities that are making the potential nuclear weapon. So the options are not good.\u201d <\/p>\n

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