In Both Your Houses, systems scientist and Iranian-born American scholar Massoud Amin turns four decades of work on how complex systems fail toward the deadliest cascade of our time: the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States.

He traces the chain of decisions that made each step inevitable to those who made it and inexplicable to those who paid for it: the 1953 coup, the destruction of the JCPOA after eight IAEA certifications of compliance, the deliberate engineering of economic collapse (later admitted under oath before the Senate), and the bombing of a diplomatic breakthrough just three nights after Oman announced it, including the killing of 168 girls of Minab who were in school that morning.

The book keeps civilians at the center of the story and asks the questions most accounts avoid: What was the war really about? Who paid for it? What did diplomacy almost achieve? Grounded in public record, historical depth, and lived witness, Both Your Houses, is a moral and structural reckoning with what happens when power, under any flag, stops answering to human dignity.