As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran stretches into its second week, President Donald Trump has been floating the idea that he wants to declare Mission Accomplished. “We will. We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough,” Trump declared on Monday afternoon in a speech before Republican lawmakers in Florida.

Iran, however, has shown no sign of ceasing its attacks. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is steadily launching missiles at cities across Israel and continues to strike U.S. military assets and outposts in the Persian Gulf. “The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are capable of continuing at least a six-month intense war at the current pace of operations,” IRGC spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini said Sunday in video remarks broadcast on state media. “Iran will determine when the war ends.”

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Iran has proven deterence capability without it. Iran needs US permission to trade more than nukes for great prosperity that can keep its deterence power. Nuclear pursuit was always stupidity with no economic value, but can turn into value by high profit sales of enriched uranium. It's important to give the US a victory narrative in getting them/Trump to accept defeat.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago

Given that Iran is getting bombed but no nuclear power is kind of shows the value of nuclear deterrence.