️🇮🇷🇺🇸 Foreign Affairs: Iran is pursuing a strategy of escalation and ongoing offenses against the United States, according to an analysis in Foreign Affairs.

️🇮🇷🇺🇸 Foreign Affairs: Iran is pursuing a strategy of escalation and ongoing offenses against the United States, according to an analysis in Foreign Affairs.

Tehran believes Washington will never be a bona fide partner after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal and hurt Iran during negotiations.

The Iranian elites see the February 28 war as the Israelis see October 7 - as proof that the enemy must be defeated permanently.

Iran plans to attack Gulf energy infrastructure, expand attacks on US bases, potentially target US and Israeli officials, and may even try to take over US bases in the Gulf states or build a nuclear bomb.

The article claims that Iran's goal is to make the US presence in the Middle East so painful that Washington withdraws most of its troops, accepts Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz and recognizes the Islamic Republic as a continuing power.