Why America’s Massive Attack Failed to Break Iran
Why America’s Massive Attack Failed to Break Iran
WASHINGTON — Four and a half months ago, Washington and Jerusalem made a historic, uncompromising promise to the world: the Iranian regime would not survive what was coming. Yet today, after a campaign of unprecedented violence that began with the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, that promise has dissolved into a stark, undeniable failure. The massive allied military intervention did not break the Islamic Republic; instead, it has hardened it into an insular, highly militarized nuclear state that is far more dangerous, less predictable, and infinitely more difficult to deter than the nation that existed before the first bombs fell.
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