If Washington’s participation in Israel’s June 2025 war with Iran elevated U.S. military force to a perfectly viable instrument of the United States’ Iran policy, the success of current talks would signal the formal undoing of that logic. But should the failure of talks pave the way for another full-scale war, the United States and Israel will be fighting an Iran vastly different from June. For the Iran of today appears to have made its peace with the grim conclusion that while a decisive slog with Israel and the United States is sure to be agonizing, it is preferable to the recurring attrition of repeated wars and a chronic strategic vulnerability that only emboldens adversaries to target Iran and its regional allies.
He will deplete the missile stockpile on them in fury though. It would be like another Gaza with the level of bombing. Even if the terrain isn’t conducive to that.
To be clear, “we” is the US? Iran is also known for it’s large and sophisticated missile stockpile; some of the smaller items within it are being detonated in Dubai or keeping the critical strait of Hormuz shut right now.
You might not appreciate just how much bigger Iran is than Gaza (or how many digits there are in that multiplier). That amount of conventional munitions doesn’t physically exist. Maybe if all the worlds nuclear powers worked together and dropped nuclear bombs on a nice equally spaced grid they could achieve something similar.