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A renewed direct US-Iran kinetic exchange creates the conditions for Iranian asymmetric cyber retaliation against US critical infrastructure, eroding the currently high probability that no attributed outage occurs.
// Cascade Logic
Direct kinetic exchange → Iranian incentive for deniable asymmetric response → cyber operations against US critical infrastructure → lowers probability of a clean 'no-outage' outcome.
// Causal Graph
// Evidence Base
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Each additional kinetic exchange increases Iran's incentive for deniable cyber retaliation against US infrastructure, pushing down the probability that no attributed 24h+ outage occurs.