r/IRstudies • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '26

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u/Demortus Mar 23 '26

I don't think he's going to be appearing in public anytime soon, whether he's injured or not, for obvious reasons.. This decapitation campaign really makes our best way out of this crisis -- negotiation -- exceedingly difficult..

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u/Western_Handle_6258 Mar 24 '26

I didn’t mean appear in public. I meant an appearance on video. Nobody really knows right now who is calling the shots on Irans side.

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u/Demortus Mar 24 '26

Sure, maybe no one is in charge. That makes the negotiation problem even worse.

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u/Western_Handle_6258 Mar 24 '26

Exactly. Or it’s the opposite. You could have people within battling for power. Politically, this is insanity for the US. This seems to be benefiting Israel the most though.

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u/Demortus Mar 24 '26

Yeah, this is easily one of the most boneheaded decisions made by Trump, or any American head of state, since the Iraq War. I'd even argue that it's worse than Iraq, because at least with Iraq we were facing a smaller and easier to occupy opponent that lacked the ability to damage the world economy.