Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy on what’s driving Netanyahu and why this will be a defining moment for Trump’s MAGA movement.

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    Iran (a country of 90 million people) might go the way of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, i.e., total fucking chaos for at least a decade if not more. If you thought Daesh was bad, just you fucking wait.

    Small correction: Afghanistan wasn’t “total chaos;” it was an insurgency against US occupation and after the US left the Taliban immediately took power. If we use this as our model for a post-war Iran (since it doesn’t have the kind of sectarian tensions that created the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars) we’d expect more a better armed Taliban than ISIS.

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      Iran for sure does have sectarian tensions under the surface. There are Kurds, Azeris, Arabs, Balochs etc. Shias, Sunnis, secularists, workers, capitalists, etc etc. There are all the ingredients for a big big chaos.