If
I were in charge of Iran’s military right now, I would destroy Israel. It could be done
in forty-eight hours. Iran would have considerable leverage if Israel were a smoking ruin. Fait accompli. Then I would announce to the United States: "You want to fight? We’ve got lots of capabilities left, but we don’t want to fight you."
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If Israel were burning, falling apart, and collapsing — and God forbid they were to use nuclear weapons — I would then say to the United States: “Let’s stop. We’ve gotten rid of the enemy. You can rush to help them fix themselves, but you’re not going to be fortunate because we really destroyed them. If you want to fight further, we will, but we’d prefer not to."
I would say: “We’ve taken care of the enemy. The enemy was running rampant; it was killing Palestinians at an unfathomable rate. It was committing genocide. We did what the International Court of Justice should have done. We did what the UN should have done. We did what you should have done. Now, we don’t want to fight you over it. So let’s stop."