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Iran Is Trying to Defeat America in the Living Room

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Iran Is Trying to Defeat America in the Living Room The regime knows that its best ally against American power is American public opinion. Among the first lessons that Iran’s Islamic revolutionaries learned after coming to power in 1979 was that their best ally against American power was American democracy. Their first test case was the seizing of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, in which 52 Americans ...
The strongest version of this narrative highlights Iran’s consistent strategy of exploiting democratic vulnerabilities—public opinion, economic pain, and political divisions—to undermine U.S. resolve without direct military confrontation. The historical examples (1979 hostage crisis, Beirut bombings, Iraq destabilization) demonstrate a pattern of asymmetric warfare where Iran’s goal is not battlefield victory but eroding American will. The current focus on the Strait of Hormuz, with its economic...