The piece says the quiet part out loud: smashing Iranian targets is not the same thing as replacing Iranโs regime, and U.S. intelligence reportedly sees that gap more clearly than Donald Trump does. โIt sounds like a deeply informed assessment of the Iranian system and the institutions and processes that have been established for many years.โ Suzanne Maloney, Brookings Institution, in The Washington Post โBending the knee to Trump would go against everything they stand for.โ โThe upper echelons of the clerical establishment are ideological, and so their modus operandi is to resist American imperialism.โ Holly Dagres, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, in The Washington Post --------- {๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฟ} Military coercion can only take Trump so far when it is paired with implausible assumptions about regime change.
๐ฃ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ท๐๐คก Hashtags: #Iran #RegimeNonChange #ForeignPolicy Classified U.S. intelligence reportedly says even a large American assault would be unlikely to topple Iranโs clerical-military regime or hand power to the opposition โ a blunt reality check on Trumpโs kingmaker fantasy in Tehran. #WarWatch
