Wouldn't that gain evaporate if the GoI collapsed?
Depends on how much resources Iran would commit, and how they get bogged down by it.
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Actually there was no threat of Iraqi WMD in 1997-2002 either.
However, the Iranians didn't know that. After Iraq killed 1,000,000 of their people in the 1980’s, the Iranians were going to err on the side of caution. And they did.