The SunDONALD Trump must stage an Iraq-style mass invasion to have any chance of toppling Iran’s regime, an opposition leader has warned. Mohammad Mohaddessin, who was jailed for daring to oppose the Ayatollah, said hundreds of thousands of troops would have to flood Tehran. Despite Trump’s rallying cry to Iranians to “take back their country” just hours into the war, the regime is still clinging to power two months on.
The Sun previously told how its “final pillar”, the ruthless Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, will “stop at no crime” to protect the regime. Analysts and activists have also warned how it will take more than foreign intervention and diplomacy to oust the regime. Mohaddessin, the president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said Trump would have to deploy a vast number of soldiers deep into enemy territory. He said a small commando team would not be able to occupy Tehran alone, and would instead need hundreds of thousands of troops across the border and to the capital.
The opposition leader pointed to how far Tehran is from the rogue nation’s borders, adding: “Hundreds of thousands of soldiers would be needed to liberate Tehran or to occupy Iran, a country with a population of over 92 million.” It comes as the second round of in-person peace talks between the US and Iran are due to take place on Sunday. Negotiators will meet in Islamabad, Pakistan hoping to secure a war-ending deal which will bring peace back to the Middle East.
