Are You Monitoring the Situation?
If so, what did you figure out on Day 2?
I’m lacking in hot takes about Iran, but if you have some, let us know in the Comments.
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My wife was born in Iran and has relatives living there. A few thoughts in no order of importance:
1. Ordinary Iranians dislike the regime - fashionable Tehranis seem to view it as comprised of whatever the Farsi phrase is for "idiot hicks" - but they generally don't actively oppose it, out of self-interest or concern for what would replace it. The nuclear weapons program had no benefit for them and the American bombs / Israeli targeted attacks didn't hurt anything they care about.
2. As an American acquaintance pointed out and my wife's relatives observed, the bombing of the nuclear facilities had absolutely no effect on the availability of electric power throughout Iran. I've read several commenters going on about how the US and Israel don't have plausible deniability anymore, but it seems like everyone's overlooking that the Islamic Republic has lost plausible deniability that its nuclear program is for peaceful use.
3. It really was now or never to attack, in terms of total air dominance.
LENNY BRUCE IS NOT AFRAID.