We know the tired Iranian strategy by now. We might call it “theocratic rope-a-dope.” For the theocrats and their terrorist proxies, survival means outlasting Trump, waiting for the next cash-laden Democratic administration, and using “moderates” to play good cop while haggling away months.The mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps feign indifference even as their half-century, half-trillion-dollar investments in what is now essentially a vaporized military-industrial-nuclear complex continue to be destroyed.The war has finally revealed the full extent of Iran’s vast conventional arsenal, nuclear program, and missile and drone industry.
The thing about the rope-a-dope strategy is that you're still being pummeled. The Iranians don't seem to realize it but day by day their influence in the region wanes. Countries and oil companies are adjusting with new pipelines and tanker routes. Soon enough, it won't matter that the Strait of Hormuz is controlled (or not) by the Iranians. The world will have moved on.
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