Israel has bought itself, and the world, time to reckon with Iran, how much time they bought is yet to be seen.

There's always blowback and unintended consequences and loose ends. It's just a matter of when the impacts from them are felt.

“ Israel could still screw this up if Netanyahu decides to be the "king of the ashes."” BiBi has to keep the war going on for a while longer. It’s giving him shade for what’s going on in Gaza. The Evangelicals here in the States will be let down if the war doesn’t go on, and will have to wait longer for the ‘second coming.’

By far the fewest since the conflict began.

it was, for all intents and purposes, over for Iran, Israel went after their air defenses, airfields, and other military targets with impunity.

They were massing to invade Israel and Israel launched a decimating attack which obliterated the Egyptian Air Force. That was the end for Egypt, they just didn’t realize it for five more days.

We overturned the will of people, and they rose against us. Most didn’t want the ayatollah’s dictatorship, but that’s what WE created. The Woman, Life, Freedom movement proves the liberal heart of the Iranian people. How many thousands of dead are left in our wake? We could have had a strong, free, progressive and democratic ally, and the people of Iran and the surrounding countries could have been saved so much suffering.

Just like Iraq was on the verge of using their WMDs!

Now it turns out to be a paper tiger?

Almost as if we got played again....

If it did the Gaza war would have been over long ago.

not self-sufficient.

If it is to "eliminate" Hamas that is unlikely and you can't really defeat an ideology but the vast majority of targets are aimed at civilian targets with no real military objective like you would see in wars fought back when most countries respected international & humanitarian law. During the most recent ceasefire you saw Hamas on the streets with plenty of members still left so Israel did a lot of killing but didn't actually get much of Hamas.

If they are trying to ethnically cleanse as much of the Gaza population it will take a long time depending on how long Israel's allies allow it to continue.

They can still supply Hezbollah and Hamas with terror weaponry and training. Our biggest hope of a diminishing of their regime’s power lies, as it always did, with the internal opposition within Iran. Only 51% or so of their 90+ million people are Persians. The rest are a conglomerate of many peoples, including Azeris, Baluchis, Kurds, Assyrians, Arabs and ten to fifteen others. None of them have traditionally expressed delight at being ruled by the Persians. If we want Iran to become the Middle Eastern version of Switzerland for which it is ideally suited, it’s the people who live there that will bring this about. No pressure from the outside will accomplish it. We can help (CIA etc.), but in the end, it will have to be their show, not ours. Anything else will ultimately be seen as an unwelcome imposition from the outside (think Shah), and will ultimately be overthrown as illegitimate, even if the alternative is worse (such as now).