> The US prepared for _this_ war with Iran for a couple of weeks.

That's a little unfair, it would be more accurate to say that the US has war gamed the region for decades and had a good grasp of the pitfalls and requirements, and then to add that the current US administration ignored all that prior work and insight and simply blundered in on a whim.

No, I meant Iranic. Pashtun and Parsi "Dari" speakers are canonically Iranic ethnic groups.