Iranian sponsorship of highly divisive and often extremist proxies across the Mideast ended up being an expensive failure of a policy. I’ll add to these great points by Murtaza on Iran’s failures that the country’s leadership is going to have to change fundamentally, or else Iran will always be hobbled by internal divisions and therefore weak relative to Israel or any other regional challenger

Iranians need to focus on surviving today and when this is over they need to rebuild their deterrence capacity on a totally different basis. Billions of dollars have been spent building proxy networks that manifestly failed to protect Iran and even created more enemies and

Murtaza Hussain

Iranian sponsorship of highly divisive and often extremist proxies across the Mideast ended up being an expensive failure of a policy. I’ll add to these great points by Murtaza on Iran’s failures that the country’s leadership is going to have to change fundamentally, or else Iran will always be hobbled by internal divisions and therefore weak relative to Israel or any other regional challenger

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