Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on ...
I mean, basically, that's their plan.
With Iran specifically I don't see how they have a choice if they're trying to stop them from becoming a nuclear power - while the current government is hell bent on becoming one. Are they just going to keep doing this? Eventually they'll miss and Iran will get the bomb. Non-proliferation is a lost cause unless the problem states are all under your control.
Look, logically they should back off. It's not worth it. Hell, it's more worth it to buy a nuclear weapon secretly. The only sane option is to change course, even if you don't want to kiss the ring. Even if you want to attack US military assets, you have to give up on building a nuke.
I'm not convinced that the Iranian government is "Hitler in the Bunker" levels of delusional. They'll talk like their insane, but so do the North Koreans, and they can all actually face reality on the ground.
I don't know, personally, what their level of delusion is. I'd trust the American diplomatic corps on that.
I think their weapons program is set back by a decade or more, depending on how well they "squirreled away" and spread the program out.
Funny, it's (probably) back to where it was when Obama gave them permission to build nuclear weapons back in the day. 🤨