Will Trump drop the bomb?

The Iran War is not going as per plan. The US-Israeli plan, that is. Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion seemed to have been to launch decapitation strikes on the Iranian regime, paralysing their ability to launch missiles and drones as they did during the 12-day war last year. These joint operations were meant to repeat the regime change in Venezuela on January 3 this year. The abduction of President Nicolas Maduro by US Special Forces during Operation Absolute Resolve was replaced with an operation to drop dozens of precision bombs. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the air strikes launched on February 28, what Trump said were about changing the Iranian regime and ending the Iranian threat. The regime changed, but not in a way the US wanted it—Khamenei's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has taken over as Supreme Leader. The Iranian regime seemed to have prepared itself for decapitation strikes by unveiling a ‘mosaic strategy’ of decentralised command and control. Since February 28, Iran has launched hundreds of explosive projectiles—cruise and ballistic missiles and drones—across a 3000-kilometre West Asian arc, at targets ranging from Cyprus and Israel on the Mediterranean Sea to Oman in the Arabian Sea. The six principal Gulf Cooperation Council countries, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, an