Desperate times call for desperate measures. And the IRGC may have never faced a situation as desperate as its predicament at the moment.
The truth is that Iran is failing, and failing badly enough to eventually provoke a violent reaction from its captive populace. The IRGC has two ways to avoid that. The first is to cut a deal with Donald Trump that he would actually accept at this stage to lift the economic siege warfare that is collapsing the Iranian economy. The second is to restart a war to distract the populace with nationalistic and theocratic propaganda.
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