Here’s what a Princeton Middle East expert says is the likeliest outcome in Iran

Bernard Haykel could have left the Middle East behind when he moved from civil-war-torn Lebanon to Miami, Florida, when he was 15. Instead, he parlayed his fluency in Arabic, his interest in history and his knowledge of the region into an academic career specializing in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. Now at Princeton University, where he teaches and directs the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Haykel, 57, is watching the events unfolding in the Middle East with concern — not only from his vantage point as a scholar of the…