Trumps pressure campaign has Iran reeling. America cant hesitate now

Iranian officials claim the regime is "confident" and are considering Iran may indeed lash out, but it would be coming from a place of desperation, not strength. On Saturday, Sept. 5, U.S. Central Command struck three Iranian tankers. "Let ‌the message to the IRGC be clear: ‌If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost — ⁠taking out⁠ three of yours," said Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command. Three days later, U.S. Central Command said it destroyed five more tankers, after the IRGC "targeted a U.S. Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the past two days."

President has chosen to crush the Iranian regime economically, but U.S. military strikes (that are hitting their intended targets at an astoundingly near-perfect success rate) continue to play a major role. The combination of the blockade, sanctions and periodic punishing strikes has crippled the Iranian regimes ability to impose much harm to the United States or its allies. The current course is not a permanent solution to the Iranian regime problem, but the United States is winning, and the public narrative should reflect that.

The U.S. strikes were in response to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) failed attempts to hit U.S. Navy ships. U.S. officials told reporters last week that half of the 25 ballistic missiles Iran fired toward Jordan failed to so much as enter Jordanian airspace.

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What should we make of this? The regime has always been bad at targeting, but all of its challenges have been exacerbated by the U.S. and Israeli campaigns, and whatever help it continues to receive from the Russians or Chinese does appear to be limited in its effectiveness. This shouldnt get these other Iranian backers off the hook for supporting our enemies in a hot war, but it does give credence to the Trump administrations contention that so far, the help the Iranian regime is receiving hasnt had a meaningful impact in the IRGCs favor.

We don't know much more about what the United States is doing to prevent other nations from assisting Iran, but Russian and Chinese support for the Iranian regime continues to be my No. 1 concern about the possible duration and expansion of the war and something to track closely.

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And as for diplomacy? Trump has concluded correctly that those in power in Tehran are not ready to make a deal. "I couldnt care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement. I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing. They are just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?" Trump wrote on social media.

This is good news, as the short-lived so-called Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) permitted the Iranians to sell oil and gave the regime temporary economic reprieve even though the IRGC never intended to stop trying to toll the Strait of Hormuz or shooting at commercial shipping.

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