The USA in tandem with Israel launched its ferocious aerial assault on Iran in February 2026 and seven months later the war shows no signs of abating. According to military experts and analysts the US President Donald Trump has trapped the US in an unwinnable conflict that has made Iran’s revolutionary institutions even more united and powerful than they were before the war. Idea that the Iranian regime will simply implode or vanish due to public pressure and mass protests has proved false and misleading. The Iranian institutions are very cohesive and very different from Qaddafi’s Libya that collapsed like a house of cards during the 2011 mass uprising against the Qaddafi regime. Despite the assassination of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei and some military commanders the combined might of Israel and the USA has not been able to trigger a regime change in Iran. The Iranian stockpile of drones and missiles has survived the American assault and Iran has continued to deploy guerilla tactics as seen in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Libya remains broken and fractured even 15 years after the end of the Qaddafi rule. The Government of national unity GNU is in control of the capital Tripoli and the House of Representatives based in the East refuses to accept control of the........

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