Iran Warns It Is "Counting Down" for US Ground Invasion
🪖 TEHRAN — Iran threatens the war nobody is fighting to avoid the one it's losing. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: No US ground force is deploying — Vance confirmed it explicitly. This is deterrence theater for domestic mobilization, not battlefield response. Nine nights of strikes have degraded launch capacity; command is compromised post-Khamenei. Tehran needs an existential threat frame to maintain internal cohesion. The countdown changes nothing kinetically.
