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Strikes intended to remove top Iranian leadership and trigger regime collapse.
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decapitation strikes
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Key Notes
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Jiang says Larajani's death makes a ceasefire almost impossible because he was pragmatic, experienced, and able to convene Iranian factions.
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Jiang argues that human intelligence, not merely electronic surveillance, is the more reliable explanation for how leaders are being located and killed.
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He argues Israel believed the 12-day war could decapitate the Iranian regime through bombardment, sabotage, economic pressure, and strikes on senior officials, but was surprised by regime resilience, public cohesion, and Iran's missile retaliation.
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He argues Israel's decapitation strikes failed to break Iran and instead exposed the regime as more cohesive and resilient than Israel expected.
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Jiang says Israeli decapitation strikes that looked successful to Western observers can strengthen a regime by making the population feel civilizationally threatened and rally around it.
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"And Netanyahu's residence was also targeted in Tel Aviv. So that's a really interesting question. How are the Iranians able to target so many..."
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"The Israelis and Americans are interested in maximalist aims. They destroy Iran permanently, okay? And the Iranians are also maximalists in that they want..."
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"I don't think that's convincing. I think the most important... The most important... The most important... The most important source, the most reliable source..."
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"...a combination of airborne bombardment sabotage, economic sabotage, as well as decapitation strikes where they were targeting certain high officials of the Iranian regime...."
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"the resilience of the regime, how quickly the regime was able to replace these officials, how cohesive the population was. The population did not..."
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"...it was more like testing the waters. Israel believed that with decapitation strikes, it could overthrow the Iranian regime. And what it discovered was..."
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"...12 -day war, even though the Israelis did a lot of decapitation strikes, they killed a lot of nuclear scientists, they killed a lot..."
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"a lot of these internal divisions that were happening in Iran these past few years, they will sort of die out as the population..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
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