For U.S., Unmet Expectations in Iran Fit a Familiar Pattern in the Region | New York Times

The regime has long put its own welfare above that of the population, analysts noted. “If it survives, it can claim victory, no matter how much destruction the country suffers,” [UANI Senior Advisor] Saeid Golkar, a military expert and a political science professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, wrote in an online essay.