A few weeks ago it seemed like the Iran war was finally winding down. But things have changed immeasurably after peace talks in Islamabad proved that both sides of this conflict could not see eye to eye quite yet. Now, recent reports that the Pentagon has reached out to automakers such as Ford and General Motors to ramp up arms production have figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene worried that this could signal an unprecedented escalation.
There was a slow build to this stage in the US-Israel war on Iran. At first, the goal was to carry out an overwhelming first-day attack on Iran, with the belief that it would lead to the Iranian regime’s collapse. On the first day of Operation Epic Fury, just 12 hours in, 900 airstrikes had hit Iran, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, alongside top leaders, were declared “decapitated.”
