Ericka Feusier
The killing of senior Iranian leaders may satisfy the fantasies of regime-change planners in Washington and Tel Aviv, but it will not deliver the political outcome they imagine. Assassinations can disrupt chains of command. They can deepen fear. They can even create moments of confusion at the top of a state. What they do not do, at least not in any stable or durable way, is erase a nation’s political identity or break a society into accepting foreign-engineered change. The U.S.-Israeli war has already entered a dangerous phase in which targeted strikes on Iran’s leadership are being treated as strategy rather than escalation. That is not strength. It is desperation disguised as doctrine.
There is a familiar arrogance behind this approach. It assumes that Iran is merely a collection of officials waiting to be removed, rather than a state with institutions, memory, ideology and a population that will respond to outside attack in ways outsiders rarely predict correctly. Washington has made this mistake before. It has confused shock with legitimacy, military reach with political intelligence, and coercion with consent. The result, again and again, has been a wider war, a harder adversary and a region pushed deeper into disorder.
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