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Three weeks into the joint American-Israeli military operation against Iran, a pressing question occupies Washington: What will ultimately follow these strikes? The attacks themselves are already degrading Tehran’s military capacity, but the more crucial focus is the aftermath — specifically, whether the pressures now weighing on the theocracy point to a negotiated settlement, prolonged attrition, or the collapse of the Islamic Republic from within.This month, I turn 40. I was born in Iraq, in the middle of my country’s eight-year war with Iran — another war that also involved this same regime. Forty years later, I find myself watching what The post How the War with Iran Ends appeared first on War on the Rocks.