For decades, the Iranian regime has guarded its strategic intentions behind ambiguity, denials and carefully calibrated statements. Its current strategy has now become unusually explicit. Recent comments attributed to Majid Shakeri, an adviser to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, suggest that Tehran believes its path to victory is not necessarily through defeating the United States militarily, but through managing the confrontation until President Donald Trump’s term ends in January 2029. Shakeri described the approach as maintaining a state of neither war nor peace and exercising “strategic patience” and “getting along with him [President Trump] until his term ends.” It is a strategy that Washington and its allies should take seriously.
Iranian Regime’s Dangerous Strategy: Outlast Trump, Return Stronger
