Israeli Intelligence trolls the ayatollahs:
So basically. pic.twitter.com/Gh9ODDDl0w
— The Mossad (@TheMossadIL) May 10, 2018
Iranians murdered & maimed an awful lot of American soldiers with IEDs in Iraq. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see those Islamofascist sons-of-bitches being sent back to Teheran in bodybags.
Iran has long been building up a force on Israels borders in Syria along the Golan and in Lebanon via Hezbollah. War with Israel was imminent and probably forced Trump’s decision to scotch the deal to preserve strategic clarity.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018
It would have been absurd to keep the deal in the face of a conflict where America could not remain neutral. Besides, Iran's has fallen into a strategic trap too good to be missed.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018
Iran is now fighting two major foreign wars. One against anti Assad forces and now against Israel. The ayatollahs would have been invulnerable had they remained within Iran. But the Islamic elite became an expansionary force and sowed the seeds of their own destruction.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018
Israel's strategic problem was to lure the Iranians close. The IDF has always been a very short range force. All its wars have been fought near or inside Israel itself. In Iran the ayatollahs were beyond the combat power of Israel to destroy.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018
Part of the problem was solved by the Iranian guard itself. They moved into Lebanon where thru Hezbollah they ruled a lucrative private state, where they could launder money and run rackets. The neck was out, but Israel needed the body.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018
The rest of the solution was provided, albeit unintentionally, by Obama. The collapse of Syria tempted bigger forces in. Iran are now the foot soldiers of the wretched Assad. The money Obama so generously provided paid for their deployment into the foreign quagmire.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018
Iran is now neck deep in Syria and Lebanon. The ayatollah's foreign legions are far from home loaded down with the crippled Assad and inside the lethal short range of the IDF. They must either retreat or be bled dry.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018
I don't think Trump plotted this. Maybe Netanyahu did. But it would have clear to Mattis who realized the Deal would become a dead letter in that scenario. So Trump did the only thing he could. He chose a side.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018
Eventually clearer heads in Tehran will grasp the magnitude of the debacle and we may see them try to negotiate an exit from Syria. Not total victory but a bigly one.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018
UPDATE (May 14, 2018): Has Iran fallen into a strategic trap? (A longer-form, blog entry expanding upon the points above).