Yves here. As readers know, facts about what happened and is happening in the US-Israel v. Iran conflict are still up in the air. For instance, the Wall Street Journal ran a long account of the forces the US claimed it used to attack the Fordow nuclear site, and in particular the mother of all US bunker-busters, of which only 20 were made. Experts have looked at the satellite images of the site and said the craters are not consistent with the use of bunker busters but of standoff weapons. So facts are likely to continue to be in dispute for a while, with a high probability of disagreement between MSM and independent media views.
By Rob Urie, author of Zen Economics, artist, and musician who publishes The Journal of Belligerent Pontification on Substack
Following a choreographed response by Iran to the US – Israeli attacks on what are alleged to have been Iranian nuclear facilities, the Trump administration announced a cease fire between Iran and Israel. That the US is the lead belligerent in the attacks on Iran recalls similar posturing by it as a helpful neighbor in Russia – Ukraine talks. Israel bombed Iran after accusing it of breaking the cease-fire.
Yesterday’s attack by Iran on Al Udeid airbase in Qatar was a pre-announced volley of six missiles, three of which were reportedly intercepted by Qatar, that appeared intended to harm no one. Under international law, Iran was entitled to a retaliatory strike as response to the illegal and unprovoked attack by the US on Iran. With this dance completed, Mr. Trump announced the cease-fire.
Regarding the cease fire, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov offered that “This is what Russia has been calling for from the very beginning of this conflict. So yes, this can and should be welcomed,” Russia will presumably be looking for evidence that the US is moving its large gathering of ships, planes, missiles and personnel assembled for the attack on Iran out of West Asia. The best guess here is that the US will not be removing the offending items anytime soon.
What makes this roundabout particularly insane is that Iran had already agreed to US terms before the hostilities were undertaken. The theory from American commenters that the only reason that Iran (legally) possessed 60% enhanced uranium was to gain bargaining leverage with the Americans is plausible. It was Donald Trump himself who tore up the agreement that Iran had signed saying that it couldn’t.
With the Iranian show of deference through its restrained and politically necessary response in Qatar to the US – Israeli attacks on it, claims in the present by the Israelis that it was Iran that breached the cease fire seem unlikely to be true. But with scant details, this is a logical claim, not an empirical one. Given that it is Iran that appears to be behaving itself—as seen through Western eyes, Iran is currently still under attack from the same coalition that it agreed to peace with.
From Donald Trump’s perspective, possibly he feels that he has fulfilled his obligation to Miriam Adelson with respect to her $100 million purchase of his services, and can now restart work on his Nobel Peace Prize. But with Iran having agreed to US terms before the hostilities began, things aren’t adding up here. The fog of war is one possible explanation, hidden motives and plans by the US are another.
Channeling retired CIA, and national treasure, Ray McGovern, the following scenario unfolds: Donald Trump responded to the initial Israeli assault on Iran by stepping in with US resolve and fire power to solve the proximate problem of Iran’s alleged nuclear program. Now that that has been accomplished, the US can depart and Mr. Trump can contact the Nobel committee.
One problem with this version of events is that as of yesterday afternoon, the US and Israel were still bombing the Fordow site under the highly probable theory that the facility had not been destroyed. The premise of Western pundits that the US and Israel knew that the charges of an Iranian nuclear weapons program were bogus, and that the attacks were therefore political theater, are challenged by the ongoing bombing campaign against the Fordow facility.
Further, the deployment of ships, planes, and missiles to West Asia began quite a bit before Israel launched its illegal and unprovoked attack on Iran two weeks ago. What the US has assembled in West Asia doesn’t look to be impromptu, as a rapid response to an unfortunate incident. Moreover, the initial Israeli attack specifically targeted senior Iranian military and political leadership. The point: the attack was highly planned, not an impromptu affair.
Commenters in the US are again claiming that ‘all roads lead to (Joe) Biden,’ that this attack against Iran was planned eighteen months ago by the Biden administration. With a similar claim made regarding MI-6’s recent attack on Russian nuclear assets, the Biden administration is apparently still in charge of US foreign policy. But Mr. Biden was never in charge of US foreign policy. So, who’s running this show?
Further, the last two US calls for peace with Iran were pretexts for unprovoked assaults by the US and Israel on it. Mr. Trump imagines that his emperor’s boot on Iran’s neck can force an unjust peace and that the payment of tribute will once again flow upwards. On a longer trajectory, that is not how this will unfold. No predictive power is claimed here. The premise is that repressive power is costly to maintain, and the West is running low on resources.
That the US and Israel were still bombing the Fordow facility on Monday afternoon suggests that the Americans and the Israelis really do believe their own b.s. regarding an Iranian nuclear weapons program— a point that I made that wasn’t very well received last week. Anyone listening to official pronouncements from Washington regarding foreign affairs will have noted a departure of what is said from the determinable facts.
On Saturday night, the 21st of June, the US launched an attack on three Iranian sites alleged to contain the remnants of Iran’s nuclear program. Initial reports from the Trump administration claimed that all three sites were ‘completely destroyed.’ Commenters on military affairs contend that this is unlikely. The bunkers, particularly Fordow, are buried deeper than conventional US missiles are likely able to penetrate.
The assault was carried out using multiple 30.000 lb. bunker buster bombs. These are conventional weapons, notnuclear weapons. Here is retired MIT professor Ted Postol explaining to Dan Davis why the bunker busters are unlikely to destroy well-buried facilities. As illustrated in the video, there are physical barriers that can be used to deflect bunker buster missiles. This means that most don’t burrow as deeply as is needed to destroy deeply buried bunkers.
Iran had previously stated that it had removed whatever fissile material may have been in the facilities in anticipation of US strikes. This suggests that the strikes were performative— to demonstrate resolve, rather than strategic in nature. However, that the US and Israelis are re-bombing the Fordow facility suggests otherwise. Implied is that they 1) believe that what is in the Iranian bunkers represents a problem that is worth addressing militarily and 2) the weapons used to date have failed to end this problem.
Report: Pentagon Agency Believes US Needs To Drop A Nuke To Destroy Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Plant, June 19, 2025, antiwar.com.
Reports last week had it that Iran no longer trusted the CIA assets alleged to be working for the IAEA, (International Atomic Energy Agency), and therefore wouldn’t allow IAEA inspectors back into the sites until the CIA is removed from the process. For present purposes, there are many steps to be taken before the ‘nuclear problem’ will be resolved in the eyes of the West.
Prior to Saturday night’s attack, Russia had reportedly offered Iran military assistance, including an air defense system, which Iran initially refused for fear of provoking the US. With the attack now in the rear-view mirror, this logic no longer applies. The Russians are claimed to have delivered conventional missiles to Iran last week, with a more general and substantial promise of support implied.
In a call from V. Putin to Donald Trump following the initial attack, Mr. Putin is reported to have told Mr. Trump that Iran is a strategic partner of Russia, and to tread carefully. Mr. Trump’s subsequent decision to go ‘Jeffrey Dahmer’ on Iran, inviting it back to his place for some nuclear negotiations and then trying to club it to death in a surprise attack, could not have made the Russians happy.
What was made abundantly clear with Saturday night’s attack is that the effort to destroy Iran is an American affair. Early press accounts had the Israelis being informed of the attacks as they were happening. While the news itself is a big yawn, the royal ‘we’ that Donald Trump uses to describe the relationship places the US on top every time.
Flying under the radar is that, with the West now otherwise occupied in Iran, the Russians are rolling through Ukraine. For current purposes, the quantum of Western resources now redeployed to West Asia from Ukraine suggests that the US is planning to stay there (West Asia) for a while. If the US wants peace, why does it have the military resources in place for war?
This last point isn’t intended as a logical gotcha. Donald Trump’s slogan is peace through strength, and over-arming could represent the strength part. But the current American effort took a lot of planning. And it is therefore unlikely to end quickly. Unless the purpose was a few seconds of Trumpian chest-thumping, nothing was resolved. Iran had already agreed to US terms before the hostilities were launched. And the Fordow facility is still standing.
On the misplaced priorities front, the alleged reason for launching the strikes on a Saturday night, rather than a Monday morning, was to ‘save the stock market.’ Donald Trump, who has been acting to manage oil prices since he entered office, likely to offset the volatility caused by his policies, is now targeting stock prices as well. Why would he do this? Because much of his own wealth, as well as that of his fellow oligarchs, is tied to stock market gains.
The Western press is again lying about Iran’s remaining military capacity following last Saturday’s attack. In Western press reports, it was three alleged nuclear facilities that were attacked, and not missiles and missile batteries. As the Iranians regain their footing, they retain the same capacity to inflict damage on Israel as they did before the attacks.
As the quote from Dmitry Peskov (above) put it regarding the cease fire, ‘this can and should be welcomed.’ Whether the result will be peace is another matter. With little accomplished other than retail-level death, destruction, and dismemberment, the question of the Western goal with the attacks remains open. Iran’s Supreme Ayatollah remains in power. And Iran had already agreed to give up its 60% enhanced uranium before Israel attacked it two weeks ago.
The idea that Mr. Trump launched an unprovoked war on the basis of a solved political problem— Iran had agreed to US terms and the Western intelligence agencies supported its assertion that it had no nuclear weapons program, leaves far more questions than answers. Conversely, why isn’t Mr. Trump at risk of going to prison for this? What was the point? Great death and destruction have taken place. Why was this assault undertaken?
To the Western dispute over who is controlling this situation, the argument remains open as to whether the US is acting of its own volition, or at the behest of Israel? Question: who is funding the current venture in Iran? The US is. Who is providing the military resources for Israel’s actions? The US is. Who is providing Israel with political cover across West Asia? The US is. In fact, the US has the power to withdraw this support. Ergo, the US is controlling the situation.
For those who missed it, Miriam Adelson, the Zionist who gave Donald Trump $100 million in campaign contributions in 2024, is what is called an ‘oligarch.’ Readers may recall that oligarchs are a regular feature of discussions of economic class in the West. Some people, including yours truly, have argued for the last decade-and-one-half that oligarchs control the economies, and with them, the politics, of the West.
So, the argument has two elements, Zionism and economic class. What is revealed through the power of AIPAC is that the controlling economic interests of the West are Zionists. If they were poor Zionists, this point would be easier to communicate because few would ever have heard of Zionism. America has been controlled by oligarchs for most of its history. The types of wealth generated in recent decades have benefitted some groups and not others.
Supporting this contention is that Israel was viewed as a minor US asset in West Asia until the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Readers will recall that the US and the Brits overthrew the government of Iran in 1953 and replaced it with Reza Pahlavi, the fake Shah that the West inflicted until the Iranians booted him out in 1979. Since then, the US has declared non-stop war against Iran. Death and its best friend, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld— who sold Iran its first nuclear reactor under Eisenhower’s ‘atoms for peace’ initiative, set the US military establishment after Iran, and have been punishing it for its impudence ever since.
So, the question arises of when Zionism took control of US foreign policy, and more importantly, why? I personally observed during the time that Israel was making its long right-wing turn that the move was coincident with the US MIC (military-industrial-complex) integrating with the Israeli military. I’ve met and had long conversations with very senior Israeli military contractors who worked for the Pentagon. They had higher security clearances than made any sense as representatives of a foreign government.
It was the US that chose to integrate Israel into US plans for West Asia. As best I could determine over the years, Israel didn’t control the relationship. And the longer the association with the US lasted, the harder-right-wing Israel turned. Younger readers may never have heard of the Israeli Socialists of the 1970s. Israel was sold as a progressive outpost with Socialist tendencies. This is the same Israel today that has spent its recent years committing an ethno-nationalist genocide that would have made the Nazis squirm.
As I’ve argued multiple times since John Mearsheimer’s book was written, my problem with the ‘Israel Lobby’ thesis is the conflation of cause with effect. Mearsheimer is a hero for his public antiwar stances in my eyes. And the differences here go to economic premises, not an interest in winning an internet squabble. The dominant feature of Western political economy since the 1970s has been the concentration of incomes and wealth at the very top.
I didn’t realize that this was either unknown or still controversial amongst the economists on the other side of this debate. As I’ve demonstrated with graphs and evidence since 2011, this concentration of wealth didn’t come from God bestowing money on some people, but not others. The industries that have done well in recent decades all did so with significant and ongoing public funding.
Academics Gilens and Page, as well as Thomas Ferguson, have written books and papers making the point that money, meaning the rich, controls American politics. The pharmaceutical industry was a large contributor to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, and the US now has private insurance system that doesn’t pay claims. But industry profits are way up. This kind of self-dealing by corporations and the rich is the way that America works in 2025.
The last I looked, neither Russia nor China has bought American politicians because they are precluded from doing so. Recall the reaction to the fantasy that Russia was interfering in Western elections around 2016. Were they allowed to simply purchase politicians, as the Israel lobby is alleged to do, the Russians could have saved billions, possibly trillions, by purchasing Joe Biden rather than going to war in Ukraine. However, the war in Ukraine was already underway when Biden entered office.
So, who decides which nations get to purchase US foreign policy and which don’t? Question: why don’t the Russians and the Chinese simply outbid Israel to control of US foreign policy? Doing so would certainly be less costly than going to war. The answer: because it isn’t for sale. The monopoly that Israel holds on US foreign policy comes before the Israel Lobby, not after it.
To the question of why Donald Trump is answering to Benjamin Netanyahu, I’ll go way out on a limb here and suggest that possibly the $100 million that Miriam Adelson paid him for doing so has something to do with it. This is in no way to discount Ray McGovern’s thesis that Donald Trump ultimately wants peace. But he took $100 million from Miriam Adelson to do the opposite.
Last: the US / Israeli genocide in Gaza has entered its mass extermination phase. This is amongst the more grotesque episodes in human history. Americans are paying for it, supplying the weapons, planes and providing political support for Israel while it carries out the genocide. For those who haven’t studied the Holocaust, this is it. This is a Holocaust being carried out by Israel with full US backing.
According to Noam Chomsky, the U.S. started to pay attention to Israel as a geopolitical asset after the ’67 war. That’s when the money flow from the U.S. to Israel started.
I recall that being cited as the pivot point in my political science class back 20 years ago.
Israel smashed the emerging pan-arabism of Nasser and got itself a reputation as a reliable butt-kicker in the region after that war. Obviously, the US found that appealing.
Re: “…this concentration of wealth didn’t come from God bestowing money on some people.”
The Messiah was an utterly good and loving young man. He never harmed anybody, but loved everybody, even those that hated him. He was an innocent child in his approach to this World.
Yet he was wrongly punished. He died the most agonizing horrific public death (crucifiction was considered to be too awful for any Roman citizen to bare, so they were always executed in other ways.)
The Messiah was also humiliated publicly,… hanging half naked on a pole, as a spectacale. He was rejected by most of his community. He did all of this willingly, in order to take upon himself the sins (evil deeds) of the rest of us. (the sacrificial lamb)
The antithesis (opposite) of Christ is one (or an entity) that commits horrific, ongoing crimes against the innocents (children, women and men), but never suffers any punishment/retribution for their crimes.
For instance; the Great European Banks that have fomented (funded) the slavery trade, the drug trade, the World Wars, colonialism, The Russian Revolution, the Wars in the middle East, the Opium Wars………… homelessness….. for hundreds of years.
In fact, rather than be punished, the antithesis of Christ are rewarded with fame, awards, vast wealth, aclaim…
I just realized this
Jesus died the death of a Judean insurrectionist — literally: he was crucified in place of the insurrectionist Barabbas.
A question that intrigues me is what was Jesus’ own conception of what his crucifixion would accomplish — he seems to have envisioned this outcome in advance, and reckoned that it would function as “a ransom for many.”
Perhaps he foresaw the coming catastrophic war with Rome and engineered a pre-emptive defeat for Judea, by being acclaimed as King but then arrested and executed before a rebellion could be properly launched. Demoralize the militants and save the nation, for a while.
If that was the plan, it evidently worked — the war didn’t begin until a generation later.
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Israel had better leaders in those days.
Yeah, the western colonialist civilization is the one that turns every vice into virtue and every virtue into vice.
Late Pope John Paul the Second used to call it the Civilization of Death but he only meant it because of the legal abortion typically for conservatives not caring about already born too much.
To the question of why Donald Trump is answering to Benjamin Netanyahu, I’ll go way out on a limb here and suggest that possibly the $100 million that Miriam Adelson paid him for doing so has something to do with it.
That, and a few videos from Little St. James Island.
Carrots and sticks.
This is the real question, right here, and I don’t think we’ve got a good understanding of the answer.
“So, who decides which nations get to purchase US foreign policy and which don’t? Question: why don’t the Russians and the Chinese simply outbid Israel to control of US foreign policy? Doing so would certainly be less costly than going to war. The answer: because it isn’t for sale. The monopoly that Israel holds on US foreign policy comes before the Israel Lobby, not after it.”
Right up until around 2015, Russia and China seemed to be integrating themselves comfortably into US and EU politics, business, and society. Lots of Russian oligarchs stashed their cash in London, and bought soccer clubs. Lukoil briefly had a presence in retail gas stations like Citgo in the US. China did even more to integrate itself into western business. They bought oligarchs like Elon Musk, and most manufacturers still have major operations in China.
What led the deep state to push these two countries onto the enemies list?
While only my personal opinion… if we stick with the oligarch concept… by about 2015 (or likely earlier, but not yet outwardly apparent) it would have become obvious to the western/US oligarchs that neither Russia nor China were going to just readily hand over their resources, industries and markets. If they can’t get what they want then they use their wealth to buy the powers of the US to change the playing field or so they hope.
Yes. Attempts were made to “peacefully” integrate them through economic penetration and “democracy” promotion – meaning the type of government in which a comprador class can throw open a nation to exploitation by global capital. Russia was well on its way until Putin came along. But by the first decade of the 21st century it was clear that neither country was going to capitulate. I think the writing was on the wall earlier than 2015. Certainly Putin’s speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference was a point of no return. And by that time I think it was apparent that China was not going to “open up” its political (or financial) system to Western control. Time for a new strategy.
I don’t buy the argument that (Israeli) strikes on Fordow after the B2 strikes imply that the former were not performative. The Prime Minister of Israel was presumably also doing performative things in order to lay the groundwork for the (laughable) claim that the war objectives had been fulfilled.
My read of the situation is that both US and Israeli heads of government wanted to declare “mission accomplished” and get out of a dangerous situation.
Gilbert Doctorow thinks that Israel was getting such a beating that Netanjahu was about to use nukes to destroy Fordow, which is why Trump decided to take it our for Israel with conventional weapons.
I find that both plausible from a certain point of view and quite implausible from many others. If Israel has nuclear weapons, they’re not designed to destroy underground facilities but cities. And Israel doesn’t have a foolproof method of delivering them with the required accuracy.
The premise that Trump administration insiders know truth from fiction regarding internal deliberations around matters of war is dubious.
I have no idea whether or not the follow up bombings were performative.
But I heartily disagree with simply assuming that they were.
The question remains. Who is controlling those deliberations. To say “oligarchs” does not provide a real answer. If I remember correctly, Yves said, in the discussion of the Spiderweb attack on Russia, that even Gina Haspel could not control all the actions of CIA/MI6.
What few people here seem to want to acknowledge is that Israel has been defeated, and maybe, just maybe, that was the intention of the whole episode.
Certainly, the image of Israel as some sort of invincible force has been shattered. Seeing missiles rain down on Tel-Aviv, Haifa, and Beersheeba showed the world that the myth of the “Iron Dome” was just that, a myth.
Watching Israelis cower in bomb shelters like Ukrainians in Kiev was instructive.
They’re now seen as vulnerable, like anyone else. I would credit that as Iran’s biggest victory.
We also don’t know (due to military censorship) how much damage Iran did to their military. There may have been senior IDF or Mossad leaders killed in one of the strikes. They’ll never fess up.
If we look purely through the lens of stated objectives not being met, this was a resounding defeat for Israel. Let’s go through each in turn:
1. Destroy Iran’s nuclear program: Epic fail, not only did they fail to destroy nuclear facilities and the enriched uranium, they lost a key espionage asset by pushing Iran to suspend cooperation with the IAEA.
2. Regime Change: The Iranian nation is more united than ever before so Israel not only did Israel fail to achieve that objective, they created conditions for the opposite to happen.
In addition to failing to achieve stated objectives, their network of spies and collaborators within Iran is compromised. Some reports say 700 have been arrested so far and 10k weaponized drones have been unearthed. I expect that the Iranians will dedicate enormous resources to cleaning house in this regard. The biggest blow however is the shattering of the myth of Israeli invincibility and invulnerability, which for decades was perhaps the most important part of Israel’s strategic deterrence and force projection capabilities.
So yes, Israel was defeated but we know the Zionists are already cooking up their next misadventure so Iran must remain vigilant and maintain a war footing for a while still.
Israel’s big schtick was that it was a country that was safe for Jews. Well this war demolished that idea and so many people were leaving the country that they had to slam the gates shut. Didn’t stop Israelis as French-Israelis became French and American-Israelis became American, etc. all of whom demanded to be evacuated by their ‘home’ country. I’m willing to bet that Israel’s demographics have undergone a major change.
Trump sought to bail them out for his own reason but soon saw that short-term, it was a fool’s errand and so quit. He really thought that he could use the US military to overawe the Iranians and get a cheap, quick victory but got into a panicked, foul mood when he saw that it could not be done and that if this war went on, it would play hell with the economy at home meaning that it would effect him personally. Now he has to deal with the fallout. Lots of changes ahead.
There is a stone wall at Gettysburg where the remnants of Pickett’s charge slammed into the wall of the Union forces and were defeated. In later years this wall came to be know as the high tide mark of the Confederacy, even though there was years of war ahead. I think that this war will prove to be the high tide mark of the Zionist state. You read it here first.
Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner–married to his favorite daughter Ivanka–is conservative Jewish and a family friend to Netanhahu. The lawyers who bailed him out of his various bankruptcies were Jewish. Trump was once a protege of the notorious Roy Cohn of McCarthy HUAC fame. It’s quite possible he didn’t need any bribes to explain his loyalty to the Zionist state. Also he undoubtedly sees Israeli dominance in the region as key to various lucrative future real estate deals.
Of course when it comes to the mysterious mind and motives of DJT all of the above may mean nothing but it is worth noting.
I think it is correct to question peoples beliefs that the Israeli Lobby has control over any part of US foreign policy or politicians. I think the correct way to look at it is from the Oligarch perspective… from this view Trump (any recent US President), the DoD, Congress, and the Israeli Lobby (etc…) are just pieces on a chess board. The perspective of who is controlling or manipulating who is more correctly viewed as what chess piece is being leverage for a move being push by the actual chess players, the Oligarchs.
Various items of possible interest re: weapons issues in Dmitry Stefanovich´s Nitter (of course this is one way or the other all “empire”)
https://nitter.poast.org/KomissarWhipla
e.g.:
MOP guidance speculation thread 1/n
“For a long time I’ve struggled to believe that the GBU-57 ‘MOP’ was just GPS guided. I had said it was a very accurate bomb before the strikes, afterwards my belief was only reinforced. Due to repeated accurate tests and now in the battlefield”
https://nitter.poast.org/Wheneggsdrop/status/1937024523498373614#m
e.g.:
“Iran needs to consider leaving the NPT even if it has no intent of building a bomb:
1. It will put a lid on the demands being made for providing access to its nuclear facilities, which are actually intended to carry out battle damage assessment.
2. As a non-NPT party, it will increase bargaining space for Iran to negotiate a more favourable outcome
3. Iran can later rejoin the NPT to assure the world that it is not interested in building a bomb (if true)”
https://nitter.poast.org/adilsultan
And with that Jeffrey Lewis (who I however would always read with a grain of salt and who has become a nemesis to Ted Postol – or has that changed?)
https://nitter.poast.org/ArmsControlWonk
He argues most of the 400kg Uranium were in tunnels at Isfahan.
“Neither the US nor Israel struck those tunnels. They aren’t “buried” although Iran did backfill the tunnel entrances with dirt before the strike. No one knows where the HEU is now.”
Maybe true from Jeffrey Lewis’ point of view, but there are 3000 researchers in Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center alone not to speak of the size of the whole Iranian nuclear research program, so I’d venture a guess plenty of somebodies do know where at least some of it is.
They just won’t tell the likes of Lewis anymore, and it’s really hard to blame them for it.
It’s possible to over-complicate these things. US animosity towards Iran dates from 1979 and the overthrow of the Shah, America’s strong man in the region, and the humiliation of the Embassy hostages. Much of what we have seen since is essentially a rationalisation of this animosity. Israel is a relatively recent part of the equation.
In all likelihood, the US is trying to avoid, first a general war in which Israel is effectively destroyed, thus removing America’s main ally in the region with completely unpredictable consequences, and second an nuclear attack by a desperate Israel with etc. The best way to do this is to pronounce the problem effectively solved. This includes continued US attacks on Iran, until Israel finally shuts up, or cannot absorb any more attacks itself.