Oppressive theocracy say what? https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-ir...

"Until these reasonable conditions are met, the war will go on." :) :)

You seem to have a much more imperative and concise view than either Trump or Hegseth, are you secretly the one in charge of everything?

I loathe Iran regime, but not much of that is going to happen.

The first response would be:

"We stop threatening Israel when they stop taking Palestinian lands and killing them"

"The US moves all troops out of the Middle East"

"Stops trying to overthrow our government"

"Stops sanctioning us"

"Stops and interfering in our domestic affairs"

"Returns $100B dollars stolen / frozen since 1979"

And that would literally put that truly bad regime on almost the moral high ground.

The impossible imperative that you've written I think helps us understand the 'Chock A Block' log-jam of the situation, and why this is so thorny.

The most plausible outcome is nothing.

The second most plausible outcome is descent into massive factional civil war.

Maybe somewhere down the line, there is a 'Shah Installed by the US' and then I'm afraid to tell you that we 'Already Did That' and look how it turned out.

There are no decisive answers and no decisive options on the table.

Idk why you’re getting downvoted, the U.S. is looking for a quick win if it can have it. One of the destructive streaks in the Iranian regime (and among its proxies) is their glorification of martyrdom over pragmatism. It’s cost them historically and it’s costing them now.

They can't trust Trump.

No one can.