Fresh off the US military operation in Venezuela, President Donald Trump is weighing a new intervention: this time in Iran, where hundreds of people are said to have been killed in the regime’s crackdown on nationwide protests.
But, with some of the president’s advisers cautioning that Iran presents a far more challenging landscape, the prospects that any available military or non-military options can deliver on Trump’s pledge to “rescue” the protesters are fraught with uncertainty — and the risk of backfiring.
“Kinetic action is messy and unpredictable, and we’re not good at non-kinetic intervention,” said one former US official focused on Iran and the region. “In any complex system, you cannot do just one thing. Iran is a complex system.”
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