The accomplishments of 100 days of war on Iran are undeniable

The United States, in concert with Israel, launched a direct war against Iran on February 28, abandoning the proxy conflicts and limited strikes of previous administrations. The declared intention was to dismantle Iran's military capabilities and permanently halt its nuclear ambitions. One hundred days into this conflict, the article argues the achievements are undeniable, posing the question not of whether the war was justified, but whether Washington possesses the resolve to see it through.

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The United States, in concert with Israel, went to war with Iran. It was not the proxy war of attrition that Washington had tolerated for four decades, not the pinprick retaliatory strikes that have been the preferred narcotic of timid administrations, but real war, with the declared intention of breaking the regime’s military power and ending its nuclear ambitions once and for all.

Significant military objectives have reportedly been met. Iran's ballistic missile program, described as the "crown jewel" of its deterrent strategy and a tool for holding the Middle East hostage, has allegedly been largely destroyed. The nation's navy has been decimated, and key nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, representing decades of effort and substantial investment, are said to have been reduced to rubble. The International Atomic Energy Agency's assessment, according to the article, unambiguously confirms enormous damage, effectively ending Iran's nuclear weapons project.

The article further claims that Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for 37 years, has been killed. Khamenei is portrayed as the architect of the Islamic Republic's foreign policy, responsible for building Hezbollah, sustaining Hamas, and dispatching the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to support allies like Bashar al-Assad in Syria and arming the Houthis. His regime's instruments of state policy, including hostage-taking, terrorism, and assassination plots, were maintained despite Western engagement efforts.

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Whatever the carping of intelligence bureaucrats with agendas and axes to grind, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s own assessment was unambiguous: the damage was enormous. The radical regime spent a generation building towards developing nuclear weapons. That project is finished.

Critics are mentioned as insisting that regime change has not materialized, a point the article dismisses. It argues that totalitarian regimes do not collapse on a convenient schedule, comparing the process to the eventual fall of the Soviet Union. The article concludes that the Islamic Republic of Iran today bears no resemblance to its state on February 27, with its supreme leader liquidated and its IRGC command structure gutted, though the full reversal of military degradation will take years.

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He is gone now, killed on the first day of a war he spent his life making inevitable.