Israel Thought It Could Spur Rebellion Inside Iran. That Hasn’t Happened.
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President Trump’s hopes that an Israeli plan to ignite an internal uprising against Iran’s theocratic government could bring the war to a swift end have so far been dashed.
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Many senior American officials, as well as intelligence analysts at the Israel Defense Forces military intelligence agency, AMAN, viewed the Israeli plan for a mass uprising during the conflict with skepticism. U.S. military leaders told Mr. Trump that Iranians would not come out to protest while the U.S. and Israel were dropping bombs. Intelligence officials had assessed that the possibility of a mass uprising threatening the theocratic government were low, and doubted that the U.S.-Israeli attack would ignite any kind of civil war.
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