Of all the military failures the US has suffered in the past 25 years in the Middle East, the Iran war is probably the most consequential.
Unlike America’s military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Syria, the Islamic Republic did not just survive another US attempt at regime change. The US-Israel war on Iran was never just about the fate of one regime.
The failure to subdue Iran has halted, or shattered, a much larger ambition: a project to change the shape of the Middle East, with a reborn and rejuvenated "greater Israel" at its head.
This was the strategic goal of the Abraham Accords, and when Saudi Arabia baulked at signing on the dotted line, a war with Iran was manufactured instead.
Ironically, it took "the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House" to undo Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s biggest dream.
Following the announcement of a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States, it is time to revisit some criminal documents.
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