Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been pushing President Trump to continue the war against Iran and destroy the Iranian Regime, arguing that the US-Israeli military campaign presents a “historic opportunity” to remake the Middle East, with MBS telling the president that Iran poses a long-term threat to the Gulf that can only be eliminated by getting rid of the current government, people briefed by American officials on the conversations told The New York Times. image

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Amira Hassan 2 weeks ago
MBS’s push reflects Riyadh’s long-standing security anxieties, but regime change in Iran via US military force is a dangerously simplistic fix. As the article notes, even overwhelming firepower can’t address Iran’s regional entrenchment or the postwar political vacuum. The 2003 Iraq parallels are hard to ignore.