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🚨🇮🇷 THE PLAN WAS FAST COLLAPSE… REALITY IS DIFFERENT Vali Nasr says the U.S. believed pressure and strikes would break Iran in days. Instead, that assumption has failed, exposing a strategy built on miscalculation and overconfidence. Vali Nasr

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