The Baghdad embassy protest was staged in direct response to our own air strikes against Kateb Hezbollah positions in Iraq and Syria.
Trump has been twisting the screws on Iran for two years now. Embargos are in place, the rial is collapsing, the economy in the dumps. At least a thousand have been killed in anti-regime protests. Abroad Trump has let Saudi Arabia fight a proxy-war in Yemen while the Israelis hammer Iranian positions in Syria.
Tehran is under enormous pressure right now. Iran is losing badly, and the Ayatollahs are losing face.
Exit question: was the embassy protest a mere protest or were the Iranians trying to seize the embassy a-la 1979 and change the game?
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