This is disappointing if true. Trump killed a sophisticated plan to topple Iran via kurds

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There were eventually secret meetings about how to proceed in Iran at a Midwest air base between a group of senior US Air Force and as many as forty Israeli planning officers as well as separate planning sessions in Washington with other visiting Israelis and senior presidential advisers. These included at varying times Elbridge Colby, undersecretary of defense for policy, Dan Driscoll, secretary of the Army, and Michel Waltz, the UN ambassador. The bottom line of the meetings was to keep on attacking Iran and making sure the ayatollahs did not get the bomb. The three are highly competent men, no matter their political views, but, let’s face it—at some point you are who you work for.

An early option sought by some Israelis was the overthrow of the religious regime in Iran, but not immediately or directly. A revolt would need time, and a lot of confidence-building. Protesters taking to the streets, as happened over the winter, led to slaughter. The Israelis wanted more time—perhaps not until late spring or early summer, to recruit support from among the chary generals in the Iranian national army.

Why not bring in a few retrained Army units and, with the recruitment of friendly locals, take on the Revolutionary Guards controlling a few smaller villages and towns far from Tehran and show that the religious faction was not insurmountable? The idea was to show the timid regular army and the often brutalized people of Tehran that revolt, with the right support, was possible.

That plan, at whatever level it was presented, went nowhere in Washington. The Trump administration remained obsessed, not with bringing about a relatively peaceful overthrow of the sitting government in Iran, but about the possible nuclear threat posed by partially enriched uranium probably still in tunnels under one of the Iranian nuclear facilities attacked over the summer.

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The Kurds in absolute no way have the ability to take Iran even with our air power support, not even close. Iranians who hate their government wouldn’t even be for that. Would be a complete destabilizing of the already unstable ME

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