{"id":64348,"date":"2026-06-18T09:44:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64348"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:45:51","slug":"a-few-observations-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64348","title":{"rendered":"A Few Observations On Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 18th, Victor Davis Hanson posted an article about the war in Iran at American Greatness<\/a>. The purpose of the article is to clear up some of the current misconceptions about the war and the agreement to end the war.<\/p>\n

The article begins with addressing the mistaken idea that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war and is now closed, so the war was a failure.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The Strait was open because an appeased Iran had no reason to close it\u2014given that no nation on earth dared to end its nuclear dreams of dominating the Middle East, funding anti-Western terrorists, and threatening Europe and the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So the rub was always disarming Iran and then dealing with its inevitable desperate strategy of closing the Strait.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second misconception is that Trump\u2019s agreement will simply be a copy of Obama\u2019s earlier Iran deal.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Obama dealt from a position of abject weakness. Iran assumed correctly that Obama would offer endless concessions and cash, while never considering force.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does Obama really believe that Iran in 2015 was stronger than it is now after 40 days of intense American, Israeli, and Gulf state bombing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump is dealing with a bankrupt Iran, a neutered military, a restive Iranian street, a wounded regime, and the specter that the U.S. can do whatever it wishes militarily to a shattered Iran for the foreseeable future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The next misconception is that the U.S. is bereft of allies and strategically isolated in the war.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

During the war, the unthinkable occurred when Israel de facto became an ally of the Arab Gulf monarchies. Other than a few rogue nations and Arab terrorist clients\u2014the weakened Hezbollah, the crushed Hamas, and the wary Houthis\u2014Iran has zero friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neither China nor Russia offered Iran much in the way of aid, other than satellite imagery and some smuggled supplies. Both lost their once-prominent positions among clients in the Middle East who deeply resented their siding with Persian Shiite theocrats over Arab oil suppliers and arms buyers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Israel has more combat aircraft than the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The Gulf monarchies do so as well. Both Israel and the Gulf states have been flying bombing missions against Iran. There is a far greater chance of Arab-Israeli rapprochement after the war than before it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It explains exactly where we are right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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