the americans should be targeting regime figures and state infrastructure with the intent on preventing the state from functioning, which will lead to it's collapse and force the iranians to rebuild it. if you force the iranians to rebuild the state, you force them to make new decisions about what the state will be once it's rebuilt. it is ultimately their decision. america can destroy the existing state, but it can't build a new one, and that would be sufficient in iran, where people are yearning to breathe freely.

instead, they are intentionally avoiding hitting state infrastructure and intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure with the intent of keeping the old regime in place (because they want a conservative regime in place) and bullying it into accepting demands enforced on it, by threatening it with further civilian attacks. this is unfortunate, and questions as to whether the united states is behaving like a rogue state or a war criminal are going to become more relevant, if they don't stop the attacks on civilian infrastructure.

the americans did this in serbia, which is emerging as the closest parallel, and it horribly failed.

they are losing the moral high ground and the upper hand against a brutally barbaric regime, which is an act of depravity and futility worth taking note of.

the problem is donald trump. he needs to be removed from command and probably sent to jail. the operation needs to continue and refocus on regime change without him.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/02/middle-east-crisis-live-trump-prime-time-address-white-house-iran-war-israel-strait-hormuz