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When it comes to regime change in Iran, Jews should be careful what they wish for

JL;DR SUMMARY Larry Cohler-Esses reflects on the complexities and potential consequences of regime change in Iran amidst Israel's military actions. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TrumpMiddle EastU.S. Foreign PolicyIranDiplomacyNuclear DealRegime Change

Places mentioned

Tehran, Iran
"A demonstrator holds a picture of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran."
Israel
"The first night of Israels attack on Iran, I texted one of my friends in Tehran."
New York, United States
"I told him about the extensive damage to residential areas I was seeing on TV news reports here in New York."
Qatar
"He compared them, witheringly, to a Hamas leader living in Qatar in a 5-star hotel."
Afghanistan
"Or consider Afghanistan, another, arguably more justified Bush intervention into a country less than half Irans size in both square miles and population."
France
"there is no government in exile, like de Gaulles, waiting in the wings to rule, as the French general did after the Allies liberated France in World War II."
Iraq
"Bush Jr. in Iraq a country a quarter Irans size with half its population."
United States
"Or maybe they will install a kind of unstable puppet regime over a churning and restless populace, unclear about its own direction."

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