I don't believe the people making these decisions truly care about stabilizing Iran, liberating its people, or even preventing it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Agreed, the "freedom" talk is for the masses and the nuke issue is also questionable, as is the US missile threat. Back in June I said it was a regime change op and the parties later confirmed it. Also I thought this wasn't over after the bunker busters, more was coming later. Now Trump says it's about regime change, then Hegseth contradicts him. Other times Trump says it's about the nukes, which were obliterated in June but apparently an issue again. They are all over the place with the messaging. You could argue that the Ayatollah was a moderate, what with having that religious fatwa against nukes due to them being so indiscriminate in killing. If the regime survives the new leaders might reconsider their stance. Last year Putin was asked about what he thought about the Ayatollah being assassinated and he said he didn't even want to think about it, it was completely beyond the pale for him.
I think this is as much a war against Russia and China as it is Iran, Iran being such an important node in the BRICS. For Israel it's also about ME hegemony. But they have to wage war against many other enemies other than Iran so there will be no peace.
I still think there is a pretty big chance of nukes being dropped if Iran manages to hang on and send missiles. Imagine if they managed to hit a carrier. Or if Israel keeps getting hit with missiles, especially after the AD is exhausted, which everyone is worried about already. The AD is useless against the ballistic missiles anyway. Reportedly Israel threatened to use nukes unless Trump intervened in June. This certain John Helmer fella, a supposed Russia expert, says his (supposed) Kremlin contacts said Putin knew the hit was about to happen but couldn't warn Iran since he was worried about US/Israel using nukes.
A little copy pasta:
"ON THE BRINK OF ISRAELI NUCLEAR ATTACK ON IRAN — TRUMP JUST SAID SO"https://johnhelmer.net/"The US and Israel will press their attack until they are confident that the Iranian missile defences are totally destroyed – “until all of our objectives are achieved”, Trump has said. Military sources say that the Iranians have been hitting targets in Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and will be aiming at refineries and electricity power generating power plants. If the Iranians can, they will launch the attack on Israel which Postol has mapped as near-total destruction of the Israeli cities. If they do, or if they are about to do, Israel will launch preemptive nuclear attack."
