Have to strongly disagree with you there. They played Iran like a fiddle.
They got the gift of 10/7 by Sinwar/Deif which they used to decimate GAza and remove Gaza once and for all. When in 2021 the world stood in awe that Hamas achieved 5,000 a rocket week capability and could fight toe to toe on the ground with IDF. They threw it all away a few years later to go out in a blaze of glory.
I yelled at Raisi and FM for not joining the war. Yet everywhere Iran went he proclaimed it didn’t want war. Then they killed Raisi (yes killed) then Pezehkian came in and says he wants to be cordial with Israel. Nasrallah did a joke of response to his redline being violated (Beirut and his #3 being killed a founding member of the HZ)?
Zionists saw a paper tiger. Someone with no guts. This wasn’t the Solemani led Imam Hussein Iran, no this was a bunch of power hungry aristocrats high on their own power. What did the Zionists do?
They Killed Nasrallah and every leadership commander across the entire organization in one of the most efficient decapitation campaigns since WW2. They continued to strike SAA/HZ/IRGC throughout Syria and raided a missile production base in Syria and destroyed that belonging to HZ.
Then finally merely 2 weeks ago; Israel told Assad he was playing with fire. And now Assad is likely dead. Two Iranian flights coming to Syria the past week were told to turn back or they would be bombed.
Iran spent over $50B (likely over 100B considering all the damages in equipment and facilities by Israeli strikes as well), thousands of lives and now it just lost all its bases and equipment and economic gains in the country. Imagine what that $50B could have done for our airforce? Air defense? Economy? All squandered.
Now Iran stands vulnerable. Azeribajian will seek to close access to Armenia, and Israel will send weapons and ammo to Kurds in Iraq, Baluchis in the south, and Ahwvaz Arabs in oil rich region). They will try to Balkanize Iran.
Not only does Israel have “beef” with Iran. It is the last thing in its way to Middle East domination. Turks will find out too late, and when America and NATO have to choose between a Greater Israel vs an Ottoman 2.0 Turkey….who do you think they will side with to administer the Middle East?
With Zarif and Argachi, Iran is gonna throw away everything for a deal with Trump. Khamenai won’t order the nuke.
Peak Iranian power era is done.
Should have fought when she had all her allies, now she will die with no one around to care.
Salami, Khamenai, and the incompetency destroyed everything Solemani and the original commanders built in 20 years.