At least it wasn't DOGE. They just gutted the State Department teams that would get citizens home when war breaks out.

Khamenei was dying and hoped to be martyred and the US regime gave him his wish.

They want another 9/11 to give them another excuse to delay or cancel elections and take away liberties. This unnecessary war is likely to cause up to a dozen such terrorist attacks over the next 20 years. But with counterintelligence and counterterrorism capabilities weakened and disbanded, it is all that much more likely.