An Iran war cease-fire is now in place, but the conditions that produced this war were building long before the first strike. Iran’s leadership has operated on a consistent internal logic for 47 years, and no diplomatic agreement addresses what is actually driving the instability from within. What does that pattern tell us about whether any deal holds?

Foreign policy analyst Lisa Daftari examines the behavioral record of a regime under pressure and why the internal conditions inside Iran may outlast whatever is agreed to from the outside.