Maintaining control over an infrastructure that is crumbling and divided easily influenced populous for how long?
As Americans race to Super-intelligence AI and the Arabs provide funding and land and energy to reach the next level of human evolution, Iran is still fighting economic warfare and in constant war economy.
Americans can keep the sanctions on Iran forever and even if Iran doesn’t fall, make life very difficult for the people. This will lead to a reoccurring cycle of protests. This will scare away foreign capital that Iran desperately needs to revitalize its economy (Russian/Chinese investors).
The question isn’t whether Iran falls or doesn’t fall, the question is what is the end game here? How does Iran get back on the path to prosperity or growth that hasn’t happened in last 10 years post JCPOA.
Or if it’s just about resistance: Then Cuba and North Korea have been resisting the West far longer than Iran has. But I doubt anyone on this board would like to live in either nation right now. Nor are either of those two nations ever going to be prosperous. They sit isolated and in the constant state of war economy.
Again, no one on here has the answer to how Iran recovers. The Israelis aren’t going to go away or collapse. The Americans are too dominated by Zionists in all facets of their power structure, economy, and society that they will never remove the shackles on Iran, magically for no reason. There is no incentive for them to.
Iran’s leverage for forcing the U.S. to negotiate was its foreign legions (HZ, Hamas, Houthi’s, Iraqi Pmu, etc) which are now severely weakened and diluted. It was also its nuclear program namely Fordow that could theoretically continuing enriching even during a war (that turned out to be a lie). Its last leverage was an enriched uranium stockpile which is buried somewhere underneath Fordow or in Isfahan.
Even if it wasn’t buried it would require uranium metal conversion facility to create the uranium metal core for a chain reaction fission cycle, that facility was destroyed.
Again the question is what cards does Iran have to play to get free from sanctions and back integrated with the world?