[kelnos]

Very little has changed with the regime. The next in line stepped up, and it seems like the future will be business as usual.

The nuclear bogeyman is the wrong thing to focus on. Sure, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons, but they have a lot of other power in the region, and we've only confirmed and entrenched that power.

[firesteelrain]

Its proxies are weaker, its allies are fewer, and its economy is still dependent on sanctions relief. Preventing a nuclear weapon while dealing with a diminished regional adversary is a better position than preventing neither.