Looks like the wildly optimistic plan has run into the sand
US government reviews of the
war in Iran show that the
Trump administration may be ill-equipped for a regime-change war, according to reports.
The Washington Post
reported on Saturday morning that a classified intelligence review found that the war in Iran is unlikely to oust the Iranian establishment, despite the Trump administration’s desire to continue its attacks.
At the same time,
Democrats are warning that the airstrikes on Iran are diminishing US stockpiles of certain weapons, a point of concern that came up during a closed-door briefing earlier this week between Trump administration officials and members of Congress.
Despite ongoing negotiations, the US and
Israel began bombing Iran last week, during a campaign that assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian leaders. Iran has engaged in retaliatory strikes, targeting Israel, US installations in the region and several Middle Eastern countries hosting US bases.
Since the strikes began, the Trump administration has claimed that Iran has attempted to negotiate a ceasefire, despite
multiple reports showing the contrary.
For years,
Iran hawks in the US have pushed for a regime-change war, warning that Iran’s nuclear program has been close to producing a nuclear weapon. Since last April, Iran and the US have engaged in negotiations surrounding Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has repeatedly said that the nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes.
Israel and the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites last June, leading to a significant escalation of tensions between the countries. Negotiations continued, but, despite them, the US and Israel launched large-scale attacks on Iran this past week.
The US and Israel have now been bombarding Iran for a week, striking government buildings and military installations. They have also hit civilian buildings, hospitals and schools. On the first day of the bombing campaign,
168 young girls were killed in a direct strike on their school. The Associated Press later
reported that the deadly strike likely came from the US.
Trump spoke on Saturday at the Shield of the Americas summit, a gathering of rightwing leaders in the western hemisphere in Florida, just hours after Iran’s president
apologized to neighboring countries for missile strikes.
“We’re doing very well in Iran, you see the result,” Trump said. “And it’s been amazing. We’ve knocked out 42 navy ships, some of them very large, in three days. That was the end of the navy. We’ve knocked out the air force. We knocked out their communications and all telecommunications is gone.”
more lies from the egregious frump at
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/07/iran-us-israel-war-regime-change
comrade stalin
teheran