Well, whether it's a good one or not I think would depend on the way the next several days, couple of weeks goes in terms of whether that could result -- whether you could actually have the remnants of the current regime that actually had the credibility and the capacity to stabilize the country on terms that would be acceptable to the United States and our allies. So you're going to wind up in any case with the remnants of a regime there in Tehran that I think don't have the military wherewithal to do anything other than capitulate at some point on the terms that the president is going to offer. But I think the objectives that have been laid out so far by the president, by Secretary of State Rubio, and then very clearly today by General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, those are some very clear military objectives of finishing the elimination of the Iranian regime's nuclear program, eliminating its ballistic missile capability, eliminating the IRGC navy, the part of the regime that has the mission of just potentially disrupting the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, and then severing its ties with its militant proxies.
Author: Amna Nawaz, Dan Sagalyn
Published at: 2026-03-02 23:30:28
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