From Israeli POV,
- Could not destroy nuclear program on which their entire war narrative was built. Thats a Strategic level failure if the primary goal of the war is not achieved.
we all knew Israel can only set it back a few months. instead they managed to set it back years thanks to Trump
have you seen the satellite images of Natanz? Esfahan? utter devastation of so many critical parts of the nuclear value chain that cannot just be replaced in a few months, the enrichment facilities are the least of the problems (though they are both destroyed too)
- Could not kill the actual IRI leadership so the very system that they say is the ultimate evil they face is still sitting in Tehran with all its tools in hands.
they wiped out Iran's chief of staff, two heads of the combined army HQ (the second one only one day after he was appointed), intelligence chiefs and deputies, head of IRGC-ASF, head of IRGC, head of air defence, .... did you expect more ? they only didn't kill Khamenei because he went to hide in a deep tunnel and cut off all contact with the outside world except for 1-2 people. and besides why should they kill the most dovish guy in Iran anyway.
and only a secret escape hatch saved the entire SNSC including the President after they bombed the super secret hide out meeting point in north Tehran
- Could not deter IRGC from striking back in heart of Israel despite killing CoC. Thats again a strategic failure. If the operation was to teach IRGC a lesson then tit failed miserably because the same IRGC kept firing back till the last minute. An undeterred enemy still alive means the operational goal is failed.
Israel expected and prepared for many more missiles to be launched. instead they took 17 hours to even launch one missile (despite telling us for years they were fully prepared to respond instantly and had missiles prepped in silos and Israeli jets could not even land in airbases after attacking Iran) and were firing c. 10 missiles per 24 hours in the final days while Israel was dropping hundreds of bombs per day, and each one hit its target accurately compared to 10-20% of Iran's missiles impacting within 100-500m of the target
- Failed to have any answer to saving their own cities, port, institutions. US kept on supplying them during the war otherwise the SAM numbers dwindled. The interceptions became costly. AIPAC and Epstein files would not always work.
their answer was intercepting 80%+ of those missiles and inflicting 100x more damages on Iran. you think if Israel cannot escape war without even a few blows that means they lost, even as Iran suffers 100x as many blows? what kind of logic is this?
people who want to downplay the magnitude of the humiliation Iran suffered always hold Israel to standards of perfection and Iran to the lowest standards possible. it's hilarious
- Could not turn the Iranian public against IRI. Instead by bombing civilians they they rallied the nation around Mullahs the very same way Saddam did.
war always results in rallying around the flag. and that didn't stop their thousands of Iranian agents continue to launch hundreds of small drones in every city every day to disturb what remained of Iranian air defences
Israeli goals were some random killing civilians on street? Yes IRI is a failure system of incompetent fools. Sanctioned, Isolated. corrupt as hell. What is the Israeli excuse here despite sitting in lap of every global power simulatenously.
they killed entire IRGC-ASF C&C, head of chief of staff, vast majority of our leading nuclear scientists and hundreds of air defence and other soldiers
who did we kill in Israel that was important? 1 reserve IDF soldier and the rest civilians. so not sure what you are so happy about.
