“The administration as a whole seems to be moving away from deep regime change as a goal of the war,” said Rosemary Kelanic, the director of the Middle East program at Defense Priorities in Washington. “A real regime change war in Iran would require boots on the ground—and a lot of them—and Trump wisely doesn’t want to commit that level of effort when the costs and risks far outweigh the benefits.”
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