I am certain this entire misadventure was war gamed in Israel by AI. What is certain that regardless of what happens to IRI, United States of America will no longer have a welcome home in Middle East. GCC countries are also toast - gone is tourism, global air travel hubs, and techno hubs of the Arabs. Someone must have been rather jealous.

None of what has happened to date was even remotely unforeseeable. It really took a special kind of stupid (that would be the commander in chief of our military) to get drawn in to this fiasco.

We really need to get rid of dual citizens in corridors of power and influence in this nation. ASAP.

What the Zionist have have been doing in Iran is criminal, plain and simple. Bad news for "Israel", what goes around comes around. And even more ominous for "Israel", God Shall not be Mocked. Some seem to never learn.

Sorry, have to call b.s. on lack of funds. Our media are owned by a very few, a handful, of corporations. And this happened before Google even existed. It happened in the 90s.

> business model

I don't know, is this willful ignorance? Press is political ...

> In Iran, it’s trying to dislodge a theocracy that’s taken over a country that’s had orderly, centralized administration for almost two thousand years.

You don't actually know anything about Iran's history, do you. Sure, back in the pre-Islamic days, Persia had two empires that pretty much set the standard for "centralized administration". After Arab invasion, it's a mixed record. The Safavid's (possibly) can be considered a "centrally administered" kingdom. To wit, Reza Shah Pahlavi's feather in his cap was that he managed to (finally after centuries) put the various provincial grandees and nomadic tribes in a box. That's basically 100 years.

A good primer background (on modern Iran at least) is "Iranian Nationalism" by Richard Cottam, 1963.

I've sat in a room with a too big to tail banker's VP happily telling me and my boss that "we're getting rid of this whole floor".

Dateline ~2010. Location: NYC Why:Indian outsourced shops.

Now the zinger, dear hn, is this: He actually said to us (we ran a more boutique consulting firm) that "everything has to be done 3 times" and "their work is crap". But "we're getting rid of this floor".

That, imho, was due to geopolitical machinations of inducing India to become part of the West. The immediate equation of "money for quality work" wasn't working but the 'our higher ups' had more grand plans and sacrificing and gutting the IT industry in US was not a problem.

So, given the incentives these days, do not remotely pin your hopes on what these CEOs are saying. It means nothing whatsoever.