Trita Parsey, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Politics in National Affairs, said on Monday that Trump's repeated escalations of threats of military action against Iran, followed by the cancellation of attack plans, have damaged the possibility of resolving the war through negotiations. "This has become a tiresome pattern. If this continues, eventually all the credibility of negotiations will be lost. People will question whether an agreement can really be respected, and they will question the credibility of any proposed incentives. Of course, the credibility of the threats themselves will also be undermined."
