U.S. Intelligence Says Iran Government Is Not At Risk Of Collapse, Say Sources

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8. Of course it's not at risk of collapse

The strikes killed one major leader and a bunch of military installations. They've already seated a new leader who's worse than the last one, and the Revolutionalry Guard - plus all their weaponry and other "tools of the trade" - remains intact, as does their legislature. Pictures and reports I've seen over the last few days indicate the new leader has vast support throughout the country.

My reading is that those Iranians who were opposed to the old regime and welcomed the decapitation at the top are in a minority.

Trump was expecting the Iranians would hold ticker tape parades and welcome their liberators. Awareness of what led up to the 1979 revolution, and what's happened since, should tell anyone that regime change there isn't possible and that embargos and containment is (or, was) the only viable strategy for the time being.

Trump Hegseth are assholes...corrupt and incompetent and with a Christian nationalist death wish.