Dual containment

Dual containment was an official US foreign policy aimed at containing Ba'athist Iraq and Revolutionary Iran. The term was first officially used in May 1993 by Martin Indyk at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and officially announced on February 24, 1994 at a symposium of the Middle East Policy Council by Indyk, who was the senior director for Middle East Affairs of the National Security Council (NSC).

Clinton's policy of dual containment aimed at restraining both Iran and Iraq from taking actions seen as harmful to the interests of the international community, especially those of the United States. This marked a shift from earlier strategies that sought to balance power between the two countries by countering whichever posed the greater threat at a given time.

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