from breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 18:29
https://lemmy.ca/post/61163842
Tehran shows no signs of buckling, even as the death of the supreme ruler creates a major power vacuum in the country.
Iran is vowing vengeance against the U.S. and Israel and signaling to the world that its government is not about to collapse, despite airstrikes Saturday that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a cadre of other senior Iranian leaders.
Into Sunday, Iranian forces launched missiles and drones at targets throughout the Middle East, including against U.S. bases in the region and Israel. Some of those targets were apprehended by British fighter jets, U.K. Defense Minister John Healey said Sunday. Kuwait’s military also said it intercepted many of the Iranian missiles fired at its airspace on Sunday.
Many, however, have hit their targets and casualties mount. Kuwait’s health ministry announced Sunday that Iran’s latest volley of strikes killed one person and wounded 20 others. A strike against targets in central Israel killed six people on Sunday. The death toll in the United Arab Emirates from Iranian attacks rose to three on Sunday.
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Khamenei was 86, I'm sure having to pick a new Supreme Leader isn't all that surprising to them.
Everything ultimately comes down to whether some sort of uprising "on the ground" occurs. The US and Israel aren't going to put boots on the ground, bombing alone doesn't lead to regime change, so presumably everything's being bet on that.
Surely Trump had the forethought and his advisors had the skill and experience to have made sure there was an opposition in place they could support with this attack, right?
Not necessarily - my guess is that the plan might be to keep killing leaders until someone willing to negotiate comes to power without a revolution.
How many Al Qaeda leaders did the US chew their way through before the reasonable open-to-negotiation one came along?