Israel caused unprecedented damage to Iran

Last year, Israel’s attack on Iran was wider and more intense than the two previous military operations, but it also seems to have adopted some strategies used in the Israeli offensive against Hezbolla in Lebanon last November.

It is not only to hit Iran’s missile bases – and thus its ability to respond with force – but also to start blows to bring out key members of Iran’s leadership.

Such a strategy of beating senior figures “Hezbolla” had devastating consequences for the group and its ability to establish persistent counter -consequences.

Tehran’s footage showed that it seems like a hit of specific buildings similar to Israel’s attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut, which ended with the murder of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasurala.

It seems that in Iran, no figure of this magnitude has died. Supreme Leader Ali Homero was not aimed at.

But to kill the military chief of Iran’s staff, Hosein Salami, commander of powerful revolutionary guardsAnd several nuclear scientists, in the first hours of surgery should cause an unprecedented degree of harm to Iran. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that it may last all day

It would seem that this will require a tougher response from Iran than we saw in two attacks on Israel last year.

But it can also make Tehran’s ability to call a response, which is much more difficult. This is supposed to be the calculation that Netanyahu made when ordering this escalation in the conflict.

Why he decided to go forward now – the one he has been performing for so long – it may be for the reasons he led.

In a statement published shortly after the operation, he said it was a matter of Israel’s survival.

But Netanyahu has been expressing an argument with which Israel has been facing an existential threat when Iran receives a nuclear bomb. To emphasize the updated urgency, a high -ranking Israeli military official stated that there was information that there were enough materials in Iran to make 15 nuclear bombs for several days.

But there may be a completely different factor.

Negotiations between the United States and Iran on the Tehran nuclear program were going to enter their sixth round on Sunday. There were contradictory signals about how much progress was made in this.

However, for Netanyahu, it may seem that it was a decisive moment to make sure that he perceived as an unacceptable deal would be stopped in his footsteps.

In military terms, he and his advisers may have considered that not only Iran, but also his proxies in the region – in particular, Hezbollah – were weakened to the extent that the threat they represented was now not as powerful.

In the coming hours and days it will show whether it will be properly or dangerous.