US strikes Iran after Trump says will ‘hit them hard,’ that military is taking ‘millions of barrels of oil every night’ out of Islamic Republic

Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran, told JNS that “it’s an endurance contest.”

“The Iranian regime feels it has all the time in the world to wait out President Trump, and I think it’s incumbent on the Trump administration to try to change that calculus,” he said. “I think that’s why you’re seeing President Trump get starting to get publicly impatient with the Iranian regime’s stall tactics and the negotiations.”

Brodsky told JNS that “after Iranian aggression aimed at American forces, the U.S. administration is increasingly targeting Iranian soil, and that’s a sea change in how we operate.”

“It really demonstrates the eroded deterrence of the Iranian regime,” he said. “The Iranian regime remains a threat, make no mistake, but it has been weakened as a result of American and Israeli operations. Its defense industrial base has been eroded. Its missile and drone capacity has also been damaged. The Iranian regime, for the first time in years, is not enriching uranium, and that’s because of risk taking and courageous decisions by the Trump administration.”