WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he believes the war in Iran “militarily is effectively over,” suggesting that — at least for now — he’s not prepared to resume the bombardment that has devastated the Islamic Republic and caused reverberations across the global economy.
I would tend to agree, but I’m still not sure what the purpose of the war was, so I’m fuzzy on if the US achieved its goals or not.
They stated multiple times at the start of this shitshow that the clear aim was to topple the government and replace it with a pro American one. They drew the red carpet for the Shah’s son and paraded him around US and European tv stations. They also declared they would completely neutralize Iran’s nuclear program. As far as I can tell they have achieved none of these things
One possible reason would be that Putin wanted to push up global oil prices to fund his ten day special military operation in Ukraine, so he invoked Agent Krasnov to stem the flow from the Middle East. I dunno though, because Russia and Iran were supposed to be pals.
I’m semi-joking anyway, but in today’s world, who knows?
Main goal: stop their uranium enrichment Secondary: destroy as much of their military as possible Third: weaken the regime enough to allow the Iranians to topple the regime
A colossal failure, then.
I don’t think so. Primary seems to have worked, that seems to be on hold and they offered to part with their stock of highly enriched uranium in the MoU, something they were adamantly against before the attack Secondary: they must have done bilions of damage in these strikes, destroying infrastructure, navy and airforce. So certainly not what they hoped for wrt missile capability but yeah, massive damage Third: no real movement there. If we’re positive the above certainly have weakened their position vs no action