Why Israel Is Worried About Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

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Posted on 10/03/2024 4:42:58 AM PDT by hardspunned

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, learned the limits of his foreign policy strategy this week: Even well-armed and well-trained surrogate forces can prove unreliable if a determined modern army disables them.

After the death of Hassan Nasrallah and many of the other members of the upper echelons of the Lebanese Hezbollah, the clerical regime’s thwarted ballistic-missile attack on Israel on Tuesday was an attempt to diminish the humiliation that Tehran has felt after Israel rapidly deconstructed Iran’s most cherished protégé. With Hezbollah as a model and partner, Tehran had perfected Islamist imperialism on the cheap: Proxies spread the faith and mauled Iran’s enemies while shielding it from direct retaliation.

But as the Israeli offensives in Gaza and Lebanon have revealed, an aspiring regional hegemon with limited conventional capacity needs more firepower and deterrence than proxies alone can deliver. Israel may have already destroyed much of Hezbollah’s most dangerous missiles, launchers and missile crews. And given the two-time failure of Iran to overwhelm the Jewish state’s air defenses, the regime’s huge investment in ballistic and cruise missiles has also proved suddenly wanting.

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Sorry about the silly western disinfo (thwarted ballistic missile attack) in this piece but it is useful for background. The Iranians have scheduled an announcement about their nuclear program tomorrow. The ability of the Iranians to put a missile on any target in Israel was proven two nights ago.

1 posted on 10/03/2024 4:42:58 AM PDT by hardspunned

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