US goes for the knockout!

 

Remember how I said the US and Iran were heading for a collision a month ago?

 Looks like the US unloaded a haymaker on Tehran.

The US and Israel began pounding Iran from the air, not to destroy the nuclear sites, but to destroy the Islamic Republic.

 Trump has called on the Iranian people to rise up. The airstrikes are continuing but many many people are in the streets ripping down statues and cheering the death of the Ayatollah.  

Yes, the US and Israelis successfully launched a decapitation strike. 

The Iranians have launched missiles and hit a lot of Gulf states along with Israel and even Cyprus! They are screaming about vengeance though the surviving leadership has made contact with Trump about immunity.  If I was an Iranian soldier, I would abandon my post.

The attack will go on for at least a couple of more days.  Will the Islamic Republic survive or will something else take its place?  I can't see them going back to a Shah-led monarchy.  I am hoping for something resembling a democracy.  It's the Middle East, so......well, gotta give it a roll of the dice!

Unlike Afghanistan or Iraq,  Iran is a country that has existed for 5000 years.  Usually as Persia, but it is the same place. That sort of continuous history, and lack of foreign occupation since the 1300s, give Iran a chance whereas other Middle Eastern countries never had.  It was not "created."  It is real, natural, and organic.

We gotta wait for the war, operation, clash, whatever it is, to finish and see what happens.  A weakened Islamic Republic will still be dangerous and given the appeals for immunity, I don't think it is going to be around for much longer.

Its the Middle East.  The war is the easy part.  What happens next is always the interesting part o the story.

Nothing but love for the Iranian people!