With US resources stretched into the previously quiet Caribbean, and Administration attention focused, oddly, on pulling NATO to bits over Greenland; the Iranian protesters weren’t going to get any help. They will take little comfort in the knowledge that the Secretary of Tehran’s Supreme National Security Council is now subject to US sanctions. The Iranian government have received the signal that they’re still untouchable within their own borders (as long as they leave the Israelis be). Sanctions will continue to grind down the Iranian economy, but nobody is offering the Iranian government a deal to stop pursuing their vision of a new Persian Empire.

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