They also got to keep their new Ayatollah and continue with their religious government. An escalation of the war would have certainly ended with a complete regime change. Which would have been very expensive in life (Iranians) and money (Americans).

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goatlover 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A complete regime change would probably only come with a large scale invasion, bigger than Iraq's. A huge majority of Americans don't want that.

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AuryGlenz 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Or with their people rising up, which is I think what the US and Israel were hoping for - though they didn’t seem to plan for a way to actually make it happen.

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flyinglizard 5 hours ago | parent [-]

We will see what happens at the end of this war when people come out of their homes to a crumbling country. They could decide that enough is enough and bring in some change.

	▲	Alupis 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Without arms, it is probably impossible for the people to take back their country. We take the Second Amendment for granted here in the US - but the lack of a similar thing in Iran is what will keep the civilian population under the regime's control - or else another 10k-30k+ massacre.

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spaghetdefects 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There was never going to be a regime change. Continuing the war meant many Americans were going to die (in addition to bankrupting the US). I'm a US citizen and very glad Iran came out on top here.

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gizajob 8 hours ago | parent [-]

US is bankrupt to the tune of trillions already.

	▲	epistasis 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When you don't the money, you can't go bankrupt. But, if you had an amazing reputation for paying your debts, and get super low interest rates because of it, and all of a sudden you change your reputation and demand for holding your debt and currency goes down, well, then that's created a massive problem for the currency that reduces everyone's quality of life drastically.

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Invictus0 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Their new Ayatollah is braindead. It's not over yet.