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This report introduces a containment strategy to manage and mitigate the dangers associated with a nuclear-armed Iran if prevention efforts fail. Containment would include five key components: deterrence, defense, disruption, de-escalation and denuclearization. Each of these 'five Ds' would, in turn, entail a number of specific policies, activities and resource commitments. However, the report does not advocate a shift toward containment. The US commitment to using all instruments of national power to prevent Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons remains the right policy, the authors argue.