Michael DiMino, a researcher at Defense Priorities who worked as a counterterrorism analyst at the CIA, told Regional Statecraft that the possibility of direct American involvement is now “higher than most people realize.”
DiMino, the former CIA analyst, told The Responsible Statecraft blog, that such an escalation could lead to pressure from Israel for the US to strike Iran itself.
“Obviously, that would be a disaster for all parties involved, not least the United States,” DiMino said. “I don’t think that this administration wants to do that, but I do think once these events start to roll together and the decision matrices and the timelines that those decisions have to be made on get narrower and narrower, that these kinds of things can happen.”
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