On the one hand this may have been the time to do it, there was a confluence of factors that seemed to make Iran vulnerable.
But it seems weird to take a victory lap on most of the objectives. No one thought the USA was incapable of bombing Iran back to the Stone Age. So while I think some of the points about the region abandoning Iran are cogent, it wasn’t the first year after starting the war anyone was worried about, it was the next twenty.
But it seems weird to take a victory lap on most of the objectives. No one thought the USA was incapable of bombing Iran back to the Stone Age. So while I think some of the points about the region abandoning Iran are cogent, it wasn’t the first year after starting the war anyone was worried about, it was the next twenty.