Ignore the medias hysteria: Irans reduced to tactics of desperation

You’d never know it from media reports, but the Iranian regime is struggling to survive — what’s left of it, anyway.“A drawn-out war” could have “catastrophic consequences,” screams one New York Times report.Other outlets claim President Donald Trump fell into Iran’s “trap”’ and he’s now stuck in a war of his own making.We’re doomed!Step back and look at all the facts.Yes, Tehran for now has managed to halt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, pushing up oil prices.But that’s a tactic of desperation.Consider: As the United States systematically destroys Iran’s military, Israel is methodically taking out regime leaders, top Revolutionary Guard figures, Basij goons, special police and their command centers.Tuesday, US forces dropped 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs on “hardened Iranian missile sites” near the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command reports, targeting anti-ship cruise missiles that threatened shipping there.In the past few days alone, Israel took out several key figures, including de facto top dog Ali Larijani.The Times fretted over that, portraying Larijani as a “relative pragmatist,” someone the West could negotiate with — when the guy just oversaw the execution of tens of thousands of innocent Iranians simply for protesting: That’s his idea of “pragmatism.”The Israeli “regime shrinkage” campaign began with the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and numerous other bigs, and marches steadily on: They can’t hide.US forces have destroyed much of Iran’s Navy, missile and drone stocks, military bases and weapons-manufacturing sites.

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Never miss a story.Iran can’t even show the world its chosen successor to Khamenei, his son Mojtaba Khamenei, publicly — possibly because he’s dead.Its missile...