Iran can desire as much as they like to "want" and "have" a nuclear program .. but the objective truth is that US just crushed the intellectual and philosophical source of this desire by eliminating their rolodex of ayatollahs ... whether you agree or not with this approach is a different matter but US has been successful in scrubbing the source of that desire so aggressively that the new hopefuls are simply exhausted to play the nuclear long game ...

I think you are in some kind of wishful thinking world.

The USA and Israel have killed dozens of leaders, creating a vacuum which is being filled by other radicals just like the ones before. The IRGC is still there, the hardliners are taking more control of the government, I can't picture the state you mention "crushed philosophically and intellectually" at all.

Whoever is left to rebuild Iran is going to be from the same fabric that was there before this pointless war, with the added experience of what happens when you don't actually pursue a nuke but use that rhetoric as a bargaining chip. The bargain didn't work, the only way ahead for those hardliners to maintain power in the future (20-50 years) is to acquire a nuclear weapon, otherwise there's nothing that guarantee them that Israel and the USA won't attack again.

You think that radical religious zealotry gets "exhausted" like that? They will hold a grudge, and never want to be in that position again.

True or false: they traded a supreme leader who made a religious edict against nuclear weapons for one who did not.