Iran, Israel and Arab nations are bound by a new 'balance of terror'

Fear of attacks on energy, electricity and desalination systems may prove a deterrent against a wider war

Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy signs a proclamation for the interdiction of the delivery of offensive weapons to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis, at the White House in Washington in this handout photograph taken on Oct. 23, 1962.  © Reuters

Vali Kaleji is a senior research fellow with the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies in Tehran.