Alastair Crooke
With Hormuz still squeezed and White House factions at war, who's really playing whom?
Plan 'A' was to topple the Islamic Republic which was seen as nothing more than a fragile house of cards. That collapse - it was expected - would ripple through, and take down several connected Axis of Resistance fronts, according to the analysis of Mossad and interlinked Israeli power centres in the U.S.