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What is Israel’s calculus here?
Is it simply to take out Iran's nuclear facilities and damage its missile factories? That may be achievable — but at an unknown cost. So far, Iran has only used about 6% of its ballistic missile arsenal: roughly 200 out of an estimated 3,000 missiles, with approximately 25 successful hits. ( alteast two of them hitting HVTs ).
If Iran were to use 100% of its missile arsenal and Israel maintains its current interception rate of 88%, that would result in about 360 successful hits. This would cause significant damage, but it’s unlikely to deter Israel from continuing the conflict.
However, if interception effectiveness declines over time — say, to 60% — then around 40% of the missiles would get through. That means 1,200 hits, which would be far more devastating.
Historically, Israeli security doctrine has tolerated short-term suffering in pursuit of long-term strategic dominance.
Meaning Israel may want to descalate once it has hit all Nuclear facilties.
The pattern of strikes initially focused on the assassination of Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists. At one point, there were even rumors suggesting that Israel aimed to provoke or accelerate regime change through targeted decapitation.The Israeli calculus seems to be rather mysterious to me to be honest. Because they are not capable of destroying the under ground facilites no matter what not even with nukes hence what was the objective here to begin with?
All they had to do was lobbying the Americans to invade all this airstrikes was futile and counter-productive to say the least
However, once Iran’s command-and-control (CNC) structure was reestablished and its crippled communications restored, the focus of Israeli strikes appears to have shifted — or perhaps returned — to what was likely the original objective: Iran’s nuclear facilities, scientific leadership, and missile bases, in an effort to disrupt or preempt any large-scale Iranian counterattack.
The situation remains fluid. If Iran continues to escalate by launching strikes on Israeli territory, we may see a corresponding shift in Israel’s targeting doctrine — potentially expanding to include oil refineries, economic infrastructure, and other critical assets.





