Mohsen Milani: Thank you for having me on your programme. As I have said before, I think, the chances of a military confrontation or a full-fledged war between the United States and Iran are very slim at this time. I say that because of the statement that have been made by the Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, as well as by the President of the United States Donald Trump. Recently, Donald Trump has said very clearly, very explicitly that he is not interested in getting engaged in another endless war in the Middle East. The danger, however, is a miscalculation by either Iran or the U.S., or an event instigated by some regional players,and that Iran has to respond, and then the U.S. has to respond to the Iranian response, and then this can get out of control, and then we might have a limited military confrontation. This is why it is very important for Iran and the United States to open channels of communication between their top leaderships or at least between the military leaderships of the two countries, so that we can prevent a miscalculation or a limited military confrontation between the two countries, because if there is a military confrontation, even if it is a limited one, it is not going to serve the interests of the United States, interests of Iran or the interests of the regional players, because their war with Iran is not going to be limited to a war with Iran: it's going to become a regional conflict.
