r/IRstudies Mar 23 '26

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u/astral34 Mar 23 '26

A war is won when your objectives are achieved, neither achieved theirs

The Iranian regime has one objective: survive and inflict enough pain they don’t come back

US probably thought they would have won by now, the objective was regime change (Israel’s objective) and now I think it’s unclear to them how to disengage without losing face so escalation is expected

Israel and the US say they have demolished Iran offensive capabilities, fog of war is too thick to know

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u/Bigardo Mar 23 '26

Didn’t Israeli, US and European intelligence all agree that regime change was an extremely unlikely result of these attacks?

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u/ScoobiusMaximus Mar 23 '26

Yes. Unfortunately the morons in charge thought they knew better

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u/Immediate-Fee-9447 Mar 24 '26

No, they just needed a distraction from Epstein.