California can't count votes as fast as war-torn Iraq, courts order original ballots destroyed instead of allowing audits, and statistical impossibilities happen in plain sight—but you're supposed to believe the system works. Trump is discovering that Iran has been waging a 47-year jihad with no intention of ever making a deal, because Twelver Shia theology teaches that Iran's destruction will usher in the Mahdi, and the only response left is total elimination of the regime.