Prominent Arab analyst: America entered the war with a misunderstanding of Iranian society Azmi Beshara Mutafkar, a leading theorist in the Arab world: The White House entered this conflict with completely wrong assessments. Relying on the Mossad's assessments, mixed with a kind of "structural racism" and a lack of understanding of the Middle East, Washington assumed that the Iranian regime would fall immediately. If Trump launches new attacks, his political goal is not to change the regime, but to deliver new blows to Iran to declare a "false victory" so that it can save its navy and warships from further humiliation by leaving the region.