Al Jazeera cited Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute, who analyzed that Iran has shifted its military doctrine from defensive to "asymmetric" offensive, meaning it will inflict sufficient punishment on the United States and its allies to make further attacks unbearable. Parsi noted that recent statements from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) indicate a shift towards an "offensive and asymmetric" defensive doctrine, with a strategy that if the U.S. decides to restart a war, Iran will proactively launch attacks to quickly make the cost of war unbearable for the U.S.