John Hultgren
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Israel said this morning that they will continue their campaign, as they call it.
It's actually a war against Lebanon and the Hezbollah militia there.
So I think it can be a fight that can be between the USA and Israel if Israel continues a war that can create problems for the entire agreement, what can become an agreement.
It's quite a lot of destruction in many countries, actually.
Harbours, oil refineries and gas production centers have suffered great damage in Iran, but also in several Arab neighbouring countries.
Iran has leapt by shooting at its neighbouring countries.
Al Jazeera has had an updated list all the time over the deaths in the war, and it showed, when I checked last, 2076 deaths in Iran, 26 in Israel.
13 American soldiers and 28 were killed in the Gulf states.
But what we have to add here, and to get some perspective on it, is that 1,500 were killed in the Israeli attack in Lebanon, according to the health ministry there.
We know very little about what is happening in Iran, precisely because there are such bad connections, and because the regime does everything it can to prevent news from coming out that can seem negative to them, and that can seem to destroy the morale of the country.
But we know that Aftenposten has been in contact with people in Iran, and talked to people on the phone as few times as possible.
And they have, of course, different versions.
People don't mean the same.
Some supported the regime.
Others really hoped for a regime change.
But nevertheless, the regime has not shown any clear weaknesses.
It has, in a way, been relatively stable all the time.
And that can have to do with the fact that the Iranian security apparatus is organized with a fairly decentralized structure, which means that the regime can continue even if important people fall from it.
It's a very difficult question, because we know very little about it.
We know that the Iranian regime has done everything it can to imprison and kill everyone who has shown resistance to the regime throughout all years.