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HANSON: Iranian endgames?

After three months of intermittent war, we are now better acquainted with Iran's intentions and the realities of the conflict.

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The Trump administration has bent over backward to negotiate an end to Iran’s grand plans to develop nuclear weapons — before the June 2025 bombing, afterward, and again during the follow-up diplomacy of spring 2026.

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Yet Iran is unlikely ever to abandon its pursuit of the bomb voluntarily. With nuclear weapons, Tehran hopes to become the de facto hegemon of the Middle East. Only then could it effectively coerce or deter both Israel and the wealthy Arab Gulf states.

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And that is the charitable view, one that excludes the possibility of a messianic Shiite theocracy believing that eliminating the “one-bomb” state of Israel would forever ensure the Shiite minority permanent preeminence in the........

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