> Of course a large chunk of that has gone to Hamas and Hezbollah and numerous other interests that destabilise Israel and Western powers
It's really difficult to predict what would have happened had Trump not torn up the nuclear deal. That changed not only the political incentives in Tehran (between moderates, who favoured opening up and co-operating with the West, and hard-liners at the IRGC, who profit from a state of perpetual war), but also its regional posture and thus that of its proxies.
It's really difficult to predict what would have happened had Trump not torn up the nuclear deal. That changed not only the political incentives in Tehran (between moderates, who favoured opening up and co-operating with the West, and hard-liners at the IRGC, who profit from a state of perpetual war), but also its regional posture and thus that of its proxies.