Video: Iran weighs cost of retaliation against Israel

The Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi argues that Iran’s top priority is to avoid direct confrontation with the United States.

Iran’s leaders have pledged “harsh punishment” of Israel after the assassination of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. But the United States has, in turn, pledged to defend Israel, and Iran is not looking for direc…