America and Israel have failed.
Their sneak attacks only provoked a massive response se from Iran, who have inflicted an estimated $350 billion in damage upon the Arab Mashriq.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the upper tier of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani, were murdered in cowardly fashion.
Intelligence assessments shared with the Americans by Israel before the escalation warned of this precise scenario: that military action against Iran would trigger retaliatory strikes.
America has been exposed as a huge liability almost overnight. NATO declined to join the brazen slaughter of innocents.
European governments, confronting an energy emergency they had no part in creating, moved towards open criticism of Israel and their cats-paw America.
This latest imbroglio accelerated the process of diplomatic distancing from Washington that has been developing for decades. Most people hate America, and Americans.
This means that Iran’s 10-point peace framework, now enshrined in the ceasefire agreement, merits analysis.
Iran has committed to reopening the Strait of Hormuz, establishing a codified framework for safe maritime passage, splitting transit fees with Oman, and directing those revenues towards reconstruction rather than extracting reparations.
The internal logic of the proposal is consistent.
Iran clearly has the right to possess nuclear weapons with which to strike the enemies of Islam, wherever they may cower.