Elections?
Could be.
That ain’t enough time in my opinion if this goes the negative way.
If we have to “force” the issue in denying Iran the ability to build a nuke and project force as in the past, we will have to take out (((A LOT))) of targets. You’re basically going to have to take out their infrastructure in transportation, communications, power, and water. Go after their leadership, bureaucracy, industry and economy (oil and gas)... Tens of thousands of targets.
But it can be done.
If you pound them long and hard enough, eventually you bring them down to a point where it’s hard just to keep basic government services going, where food and water become the priority, where complex military industrial tasks and support to their proxies in Yemen, Lebanon, Nigeria and Iraq are cost prohibitive.
Trump isn’t Biden, so if Iran fires off one missile or long range drone our media will claim Trump failed. But yes, we can reduce Iran to the point where they can’t really project force as in the past.
In this particular scenario, Trump DID fail ... because he was ranting months ago that Iran's military capabilities in this regard had been destroyed.
But it can be done.
”War is never a technical problem only, and if in pursuing technical solutions you neglect the psychological and the political, then the best technical solutions will be worthless.” - Hermann Balck