Hawzah News Agency- We still do not know how much damage last month’s U.S. air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities caused. “I believe it was total obliteration'', U.S. President Donald Trump bragged at the NATO summit in June. But an early U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran could begin enriching uranium again in a few months; the International Atomic Energy Agency has reached the same conclusion.
One thing we can say with relative confidence, however, is that the massive Israeli-U.S. bombing campaign did not spark an uprising against the Islamic Republic – the outcome that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had hoped for.
The notion that bombing civilians will break their morale and turn them against their own leaders is old and mostly discredited.
The truth is that most people don’t like being bombed by foreign powers. This is especially true in a proud country like Iran, with a bitter history of foreign interventions.
Hatred of Western countries may have waned, but Iranians remain suspicious of their motives. And if it is hard to imagine Iranians rallying around Mr. Trump’s MIGA banner, the idea that they would see Mr. Netanyahu as a political savior is even more fanciful.
Source: THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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