Opaque nature of US-Iran shadow war: Are they 'dancing their way out of a minefield' towards a deal?

François Picard welcomes Peter Apps, a global defence commentator who writes a bi-weekly column for Reuters on national security, conflict, international affairs and technology. Rather than casting the current state of US-Iran tensions as a binary shift between war and peace, Apps outlines a more fluid and volatile reality, where ceasefire and escalation unfold simultaneously: "Both (conflict and negotiations) will keep running.