TinDrumNesrine Malik
'the Iranian regime, for all the denunciations you might level at it, has a huge capacity for pain, and for prolonged escalation without a clear scenario of military victory against a superpower, something the American regime finds inconceivable'
#iran #middleEast #geopolitics #usPol
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/06/donald-trump-us-israel-war-iran-sixth-week
Trump’s chaotic war on Iran has dragged into its sixth week because he is fighting an adversary he doesn’t understand
Ignorance and arrogance were his drivers. The idea that the regime plays by different rules, with its own goals, never occurred to him, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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