There’s not a lot we can do to Iran besides aerial attack. Tehran is what 700 km from the the Gulf or Arabian Sea. We’re not doing a Maduro replay. There’s also a considerable mountain chain between the sea and Tehran.
So do we throw a few more Bunker Busters or just sign on to a slightly better deal than Barky got. Either way the President still has to sleep at night knowing the 1,000s who were killed as he said “ help is coming!” I’m guessing he will sleep just fine.
“I let Prime Minister Netanyahu know that negotiation is my preference,” Trump said.
“I let President Trump know that sinking the approach shot from 180 yards is my preference,” Netanyahu said.
Anyway, I mentioned in another thread, mullahs being religious fundamentalists, cannot negotiate without violating their religious rules, so it comes down to a choice for them, go against their religion, or face death trying to defend it.
Philosophers can debate whether it is honorable or deluded to choose death. I suppose much depends on what faith it is that one would die for. Imagine the disappointment after one dies to find out there never was a hidden twelfth imam, and that Allah is at best a badly constructed version of God and at worst Satan disguised as God.
The israelis likely have a lot of agents in tehran. there is enough confusion in the country to place a lot people everywhere.
But I don’t think either the israelis or the usa will kill khoemeni or however it is that you spell the guy’s name.
the real question is how do you take all the nodes by which he exercises power? basically strip him and leave him naked of power.
that takes some real understanding to pull that off.
then leave the iranians to figure things out for themselves.
another shah may not be such a great idea. but that would be for the iranians to decide.