Donald Trump has said the US’s war with Iran will end when he decides — when, as he put it, “I feel it, feel it in my bones”.
But it will not only be up to the US president. Over the past week, as the conflict has escalated and sent shocks through the global economy, Iran’s leaders and military commanders have signalled that — far from a quick capitulation — the Islamic republic plans to silence its guns on its own terms.
“Everybody is fixated on the vacillations of Trump, but it’s completely missing the fact there’s a massive country with its own agency,” said a western official. “What is at play is pretty much the whole raison d’être of the regime, which is to survive and resist.”
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