Israel has caused unprecedented damage to Iran’s elite

Not only Israel’s attack on Iran was broader and intense than its two previous military operations last year, but it seems that it has accepted part of the strategy used in the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon last November.

This is not only to hit Iran’s missile bases – and thus its ability to react with force – but also to start strikes to bring out key members of Iran’s leadership.

This strategy for beheading Husbarla’s higher figures had devastating consequences for the group and its ability to install a sustainable counter.

Tehran footage showed what they seem to be specific buildings similar to Israel’s attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut, which ended with the murder of Hezbollah Hassan Nasarala.

It seems that no figure of this magnitude has been killed in Iran. Supreme leader Ali Hamenei is not directed.

But to kill the military commander of Iran, Hossein Salami, Commander of the Powerful Revolutionary GuardsAnd a few nuclear scientists, in the first hours of the operation, is to inflict an unprecedented degree of damage to Iran’s elite. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that this could go on for days

This seems to be a more jasty response than Iran than we saw in his two attacks against Israel last year.

But this can also make Tehran’s ability to call such an answer so much more difficult. This is probably the calculation that Netanyahu did to order this escalation in the conflict.

Why he decided to continue the attack right now – one that he is so long can be for the reasons he gave.

In a statement published shortly after the start of the operation, he said it was about Israel’s survival.

But Netanyahu has made the argument for many years that Israel faces an existential threat if Iran receives a nuclear bomb. To emphasize the renewed emergency, a senior Israeli serviceman said there was information that Iran had enough materials to make 15 nuclear bombs within days.

But there may have been a very different factor in the game.

Talks between the US and Iran about a deal on Tehran’s nuclear program were about to enter their sixth round on Sunday. There were conflicting signals about how much progress had been made in this.

For Netanyahu, however, it may seem that this is a decisive moment to ensure that what he sees as an unacceptable deal will be stopped in his traces.

He and his advisers may have felt that not only Iran, but also her proxies in the region – more special Hezbollah – were weakened to such an extent that the threat they had once represented was no longer so powerful.

The next hours and days will show whether this proved to be a correct or dangerous wrong calculation.