America and Israel Won the Battle—But Iran Is Already Plotting the Next War

By Eric Edelman, Charles Wald and Jonathan Ruhe 

Decades of tensions with Iran culminated in the short but sharp 12-Day War in June. The United States and Israel won the battle, but this is just one round in the war Tehran still intends to win.

Iran’s atomic infrastructure is entombed in rubble. Many of its top military commanders and nuclear scientists are dead, and its air defenses and long-range missile launchers are decimated. The regime’s losses, and its unpreparedness, magnify its deeper failures to govern the country. The regime has been hit hard on other fronts, too, as the London-Paris-Berlin “E3” troika snapped back strict UN arms embargoes and tough economic sanctions last month.

Iran’s longstanding certitude, that merely feigning interest in diplomacy reliably kept pressure at bay, is now an open question after such foot-dragging triggered airstrikes and snapback. It likely never thought enemy kinetic and covert action would be so effective. Nor did it expect America and Europe to actually uphold their oft repeated redlines…

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