Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] The stated goals of the war of the Epstein Coalition.
Epstein Coalition? How very clever, to be sure.1. Change the regime in Iran and put Pahlavi in ​​Tehran.
2. Destroy Iran's nuclear program and seize enriched uranium.
3. Destroy Iran's missile program.
4. Seize complete air superiority over Iran.
5. Ensure free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
6. Completely destroy the Axis of Resistance network.
7. Seize southern Lebanon up to the Litani River and disarm Hezbollah.
8. Destroy the IRGC and Basij structures.
9. Establish control over Iranian oil.
10. Ensure US participation in the elections of any new government in Iran. 11. Assemble a broad coalition against Iran to invade Iran.
Iran.
1. Maintain control over processes in Iran and the continuity of power of the ayatollahs.
2. Achieve a complete withdrawal of American troops from all bases in the region.
3. Close the Strait of Hormuz to ships and vessels associated with the United States and Israel.
4. Achieve compensation and reparations from the United States.
5. Achieve the lifting of American sanctions against Iran.
6. Ensure the export of Iranian and non-Iranian oil from the Persian Gulf under the control of the IRGC.
7. Convert the oil trade in the Persian Gulf from dollars to yuan.
8. Destroy key US and Israeli assets in the region, both military and economic.
9. Ensure the survival of the Axis Resistance in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen.
10. Achieve an agreement that will protect Iran from a new attack.
As of March 16, the parties are very far from most of their publicly stated goals.
Of course, there is also a secondary issue, related to US pressure on China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative,
Israel's plans to occupy new territories in Lebanon and Syria, China and Russia's possible plans to exploit Trump's miscalculations to weaken the US, globalists' plans related to the defeat of MAGA in the upcoming midterm elections in the US,
the desire of the US and Israel to push through the "Abrahamic Accords,"
the desire of the US and Israel to implement the Kurdish project at the expense of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey,
and the hopes of a number of countries in the region to use Iran's weakening to their own economic and territorial interests.