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The Iran Victory Myth and the Ceasefire of a Battered Regime
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Stephen Pollard - How would you describe a nation which has had almost all of its navy and air force destroyed, most of its leadership assassinated, its military commanders killed, its air defense and radar sites taken out, along with many of its leading scientists, its ballistic missile stockpiles destroyed, and over a thousand of its domestic and global terror commanders killed? Former UK national security adviser Lord Ricketts told the BBC that "Iran has come out stronger." The narrative that "Iran is now more powerful, the U.S. weakened" is now everywhere - and growing. It's a strange kind of victory for Iran, which has also had its proxy army Hamas reduced to rubble, seen the leadership of Hizbullah taken out, had its Syrian stooge Assad removed, had much of its economic infrastructure destroyed - and will more than likely now have to deal with an internal uprising that has been biding its time. Much of the commentary today has taken Iran's list of ten "demands" as some kind of blueprint of a deal, rather than as the crazed propaganda that they are. You need to be - let's be blunt - a Grade A idiot to think that these ten points are the basis for anything. The only "achievement" of the regime is that it remains in charge of Iran. But the idea that this is guaranteed to last, and that the possibility of its collapse is no longer real, is merely an assertion. The writer was the editor of the Jewish Chronicle from 2008-2021.