CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (David Wurmser) - What does victory and surrender in Iran mean?
Originally published by JNS
When President Trump stated that he expects this war with Iran to end with an unconditional surrender, it set off a debate over what that might mean and how it will happen. The answer to how and when the Iranian regime no longer has an option of continuing rests on how one understands the nature of the Iranian regime. Some believe that regime’s bottom line remains the preservation of the Islamic Revolution. Any compromise could be entertained were it to help secure the longevity and resilience of that revolution. There is indeed the precedent of 1988 when the regime appealed to just that argument to justify agreeing to an obnoxious ceasefire to the Iran-Iraq war. But some never accepted that ceasefire and issued from a different…Open