What Sohrab Ahmari has said about United States war with Iran

Ahmari considers a return to full-scale war unlikely and expects the U.S. to pressure Iran through a blockade instead.

“I don't think we'll ever return to a big escalatory war ever again”

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Ahmari argues the reported Iran deal concedes much merely to restore the pre-war status quo.

“a lot of this seems to be giving up a lot of points to Iran in order to just restore a status quo ante”

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Ahmari predicts a reckoning in the Republican Party with the hawks who sold the Iran war.

“So there's going to be a reckoning, I think, in the Republican Party”

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Ahmari argues the restraint camp won staffing battles but outside hawks drove the decision to attack Iran.

“Those people won many of the staffing battle inside the administration, meaning they got these jobs up and down the Pentagon, the intelligence community and so on”

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Ahmari says the Iran war will cost at least $200 billion, the amount being requested from Congress.

“the war I just launched in Iran, which at a minimum is going to cost $200 billion, which is what is being asked for from Congress”

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Ahmari warns that ground operations at Kharg Island or special-forces raids for enriched uranium would be disastrous, and that fully defeating Iran would require at least 500,000 troops.

“the only way to do the really big thing of, quote unquote, defeating Iran is to do an invasion that takes 500,000 troops at a minimum”

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