Iran's Last Hope Is American Division |
The United States is winning.
Anyone telling you otherwise is either mistaken — or rooting for a different outcome.
That may sound blunt. But it happens to be true.
The Iranian regime's best remaining strategy is not military. It is political. Tehran is not counting on its air defenses, which are being shredded. It is not counting on its ballistic missile program, which has been systematically dismantled. It is not counting on its nuclear infrastructure, which is being methodically degraded.
It is counting on Americans.
More specifically, it is counting on a strange and uncomfortable coalition inside the United States: a segment of the Left that reflexively opposes anything undertaken by President Donald Trump, and a faction on the populist Right that insists American power is inherently corrupt and that any projection of it must be illegitimate. That coalition — unlikely as it seems — is Iran's last real hope.
Because on the battlefield, the facts are stubborn.
According to reports, Israeli strikes have targeted senior leadership facilities, including sites tied to succession planning within Iran's governing structure. The United States, meanwhile, has struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities and ballistic missile sites across the country. Iran's capacity to threaten its neighbors — and eventually the West — is being reduced in real time.
And at a cost that, while never trivial in war, underscores the scale of American military........