In the spring of 1943, British intelligence services carried out the most audacious deception operation in modern war history: “Operation Mincemeat.” They dressed an unidentified corpse as a fictitious Royal Navy officer, complete with love letters and forged classified documents, and left it on the coast of Spain to convince the Germans that the Allies’ next target was Greece, not Sicily. The operation was astonishingly successful: ****** moved his forces to Greece, and the Allies captured Sicily with far fewer casualties.Now, more than eight decades later, a vital question arises: Can Donald Trump apply a modern version of this scenario against the Islamic Republic of Iran? The short answer is: No. And the reasons go far beyond the technical differences between World War II and the digital age. This article argues that a combination of the inimitable nature of Iran’s power structure, the active presence of China and Russia as strategic supporters, and the inherent limits of U.S. military power has made a successful repeat of “Mincemeat” against Iran practically impossible
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