THE war between Iran Israel and the US is now over two months old with a fragile ceasefire now in force.

Historians and defense analysts now trying to assess the situation and to judge prospects of Donald Trump’s reckless onslaught on Iran and now becoming more and more clear that the Trump regime has entangled the US in a unwinnable war that will leave the new regime in Iran and Iran’s revolutionary institutions even more powerful than they were before the start of the war. It is now pretty obvious that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC is more powerful and influential than was previously thought. Iranian institutions have remained united and cohesive far more than what was seen in Libya that broke apart during the Arab spring in 2011. Trump aim that Iran will implode and people will rise up against the regime has not materialized and it is not likely to happen. The brutal killing of the Iranian supreme leader and other military leaders by Israeli and American air power has not been able to bring about the required results of a complete regime toppling.

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