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More open to settlement, is not a given either. While the people of Iran are and will be suffering, a theocracy led by hardliners don't necessarily have to care about that. Saddam's Iraq survived a long time under brutal sanctions that killed a lot of people. The Taliban was subjected to every hardship yet never surrendered. Same goes for the North Vietnamese.
Time is even more against the world and the US than it is against Iran, I think. People will be starving to death in other places relatively soon. The US is the world hegemon and the guarantor of trade routes. Iran doesn't have those responsibilities.
Well, yes, it sucks to be ruled by insane maniacs. US is not ready to commit the resources necessary to overthrow those maniacs. Nobody else is even remotely capable of doing that. So it will continue to suck for those people, and will probably get worse. At least the US can prevent the insane maniacs from impacting too many people that aren't currently under their rule.
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