That doesn’t mean there won’t be a war—the chances for miscalculation are high and growing higher—but merely that war isn’t actually the outcome either side seeks. This is the high-stakes equivalent of a schoolyard standoff in which both kids hope that by showing they’re prepared to cross a line in the dirt, they can avoid the need to actually cross it. Newsletter Sign-up The stare-down got more dangerous Monday, when Iran said it would soon surpass the limits on its stockpile of enriched uranium it accepted in the 2015 nuclear deal with the U.S. and other world powers. The move was an obvious effort to scare European countries—which are desperate to salvage that deal —into defying American economic sanctions on Iran. Indeed, Iran said its enrichment decision could be reversed if European countries follow through on an earlier pledge to construct a financial system to help Iran circumvent American […]