Iran is winning in the sense they are not defeated, the regime is holding and fighting back and they have the resources and capacity for fight for years assymetrically and cause econmic chaos. Trump was told but he is an idiot and you can't fix stupid. The Mail (sorry!) They realised that, over recent years, the US has placed increasing faith in that single, brutal idea: remove the head and the body collapses. It worked, more or less, with Saddam Hussein. (It didn’t with Osama bin Laden, whose death did little to destroy Al Qaeda, while the assassination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not end the group’s terror either.) But the Iranians knew that, eventually, the Americans would go straight for their Supreme Leader – and they had a plan to inoculate themselves when it happened. They dispersed their nuclear infrastructure across the country, burying key sites deep underground. The principle was identical: never give the enemy a single target whose destruction can end the fight. In both cases, Iran looked at what Iraq had done and built the exact opposite. And, two decades on, the plan paid off the moment Khamenei was killed. The IRGC has been divided into provincial commands across Iran’s 31 provinces. Each unit functions like a self-contained mini-military, with its own intelligence cells, and ground forces. Provincial commanders have full tactical authority: they can launch missile strikes, drone swarms, and even harass ships without seeking approval from above. Mail OnlineDAVID PATRIKARAKOS: How Iran learnt from the defeat of Sa...PATRIKARAKOS: War is now into its third week, and its effects are global. By March 12 combined US and Israeli forces had struck around 6,000 targets in Iran since operations began.
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