A trillion dollars and five decades’ worth of missiles and centrifuges are now up in smoke. That money might have otherwise saved Iranians from the impoverishment of the last fifty years.

It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East.

Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar—the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out—and a ceasefire.

Iran would have been better off not launching such a ceremonial but ultimately humiliating proof of impotence.

Even worse for the theocracy, Iran’s temporary reprieve came from the now magnanimous but still hated Donald Trump.

So ends the creepy mystique of the supposedly indomitable terror state of Iran, the bane of the last seven American presidents over half a century.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

https://victorhanson.com/in-the-end-everyone-hated-the-iranian-theocracy/

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“In the End, Everyone Hated the Iranian Theocracy”

Not everyone VDH….There were those with intractable IDS who were rooting for the Mullahs who will now slink back into the murk to lick their wounds .