Trump claims Iran’s regime is fractured. The reality is more complicated.

There is zero point in listening to Trump anymore. He said they've won the war (they haven't), he said they've changed the regime (they haven't), he said they destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities (they haven't), he said Iran has no military left (they do), he said he was portrayed as a doctor in the image (he wasn't). The list goes on...

I find the sources in this article weak. And to have Trita Parsi as a commentator is beyond laughable.

Political nuance is lost on Listnook, but the reality is a little more complicated than the simpletons are making it out to be. Western analysts and intelligence do think the Iranian regime is fractured which presents a problem: who do you negotiate with? When Iran proposed a ceasefire, the terms the Iranian civilian government (whom the US negotiated with) came up with and announced via state media contradicted what the IRGC announced via their social media. The civilian government and the IRGC seem to be two competing factions (The US seemed to feed into this by deliberating negotiating with the civilian government, making it clear whom they thought was in charge and had authority to speak for Iran as a state), and even the IRGC is fractured and not one whole central command, since their whole mosaic command structure is based on distributing and decentralizing authority, and many of the clearest leaders had been killed in the earlier decapitation strikes, so you have many non-integrated, independent units not necessarily taking orders from the same person at the top. That's how you get one part of the government or military promising safe passage and another unit firing on ships. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing in many cases. Even in the civilian government, there's chaos and likely power struggles. The new Ayatollah hasn't shown his face or made any public announcements in weeks. Is he alive, is he dead, is someone else running the show? Most of Iran doesn't seem to know, only a few in power probably. It's a big political mess for Iran, and for any states that would want to negotiate with them about anything, if there's not one, unified state entity known as "Iran" with a cohesive national identity and foreign policy, and one civil authority that can speak for all of Iran and all of Iran will listen to them.

Trump does neither nuance or truth, so ignore him. Just keep his hotdog fingers off the nuke button.

So, you could say... Fractured but Whole?

I feel like he's giving a firsthand account of the internal workings of GOP. 

The reality is more complicated" is just journalism for "he's wrong but we have a word count to hit

trumps regime is also fractured

Isn't their military command structure de-centralized (synonym: fractured) by design?

His brain is fractured 

Is he aware of what hes done to ours?

Everything from this administration surrounding this war is like pure projection, with the opposite being true.

Wait, you mean to tell me that a heavily entrenched, deeply militarized theocracy isn't just going to magically collapse overnight because a politician said it would? Shocking.

"Trump says/claims/insists/..." - always BS

I don't think "he lied" is all that complicated.

USA is fractured 

So, Iran's regime is not fractured in the slightest way, and is in fact, almost entirely intact. 👍 Didn't even need to read the article.

How many US regime appointees have been ousted in recent weeks? Plenty of fractures on both sides.

Obviously the CNN would know - they're fully in the pocket of the Islamic Republic Regime.

You lot realise you dont have to give your opinion on Trump on every feed, right? Like we can just discuss the topic without reducing ourselves to f****** parrots.