Iran has come out of the shadows and attacked Israel directly. **Read OP before posting**

Looks like it was bs alright

Could be a part of it.

Also, simply wear down the Israeli military. Heightened states of alert can only last so long. Troops get tired, it's expensive to operate, and mistakes can be made. Eventually you loose focus or think it's just another empty threat, and that's when they actually strike you.

They just tweeted this tonight

Another big pro-Israel election night!All 15 AIPAC-endorsed candidates won their races!Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics!

As we have seen in Ukraine much of Russia's well vaunted machinery prior to the War there is no match for what the west has. The strike by Israel last time on a military target in Iran reinforced that message. I dont think there will be a war because Iran knows it cannot win a conventional war against Israel. If Iran thought it could win iagainst Israel, they'd have gone to war long before now.

This shows once again the propaganda we often hear about the death cult in Iran intent on martyrdom is rubbish. They are very much into self preservation. Things will go back to the way they were with Iran's proxies doing its bidding

The s 500 is supposed to overcome this problem with cheap drones, but as we saw with the s400 a lot of claims about it didn't hold up as it had problems dealing with western weaponry supplied to Ukraine. It's true in the Ukraine war defense seems to be easier but alot of that can be attributed to how poor the Russian military is in fighting. Also that their military equipment by and large is inferior to western equipment. As a US military commander commented in the early stages of the Ukrainian war;" we had shock and awe, the Russians have just been shocking awful" That about sums them up. In years to come they should show videos of the Russian war in Ukraine as example of how not to conduct warfare. To think prior to the war Russia was considered to be the third or fourth strongest army in the world. The Russian arms industry must have seen a huge decline in sales due to the Ukraine war.

A better question would be what where these infamous Russian defences doing the multiple times Israelis swatted out people (like HAMAS terrorists) in Iran like flies

It's a '' long game ''.

This is a ' long game ' and will be drawn out to ensure that the US uses their influence with Israel to get a peace deal. The US however are dragging their feet intentionally imo and there may be a few medium strikes to move the talks on. Unlike Israel it seems clear that the US does not want a war in the region as it would probably last for many years.

Iran just keeping Israel on it's toes.

Hopefully that is all, Israel just itching for another reason to keep the killing machine going. Jesus, they really are a cancer in the region and that is saying something when you have Iran on the list.

If a deal was reached in Gaza Iran might have an off ramp in this situation. There will be some in Israel who will be disappointed if Iran don't attack, but they will get their wish because Biden is incapable of exerting any influence over Nethanyu

Irrael would be quite similar without the US backing. They behave in that 8th century fashion anyway.

I dont see a ceasefire in Gaza until there are no terrorists left to shoot, Iran will have to find its off ramp elsewhere I think

Gallant has come out and said that is a unachievable goal. This is the crux of the problem,if force does not work, then try more force. Although it suits some actors in Israel to have it this way as it helps maintain the status quo. In other words they need Palestinian resistance to justify their own policies. Bibi even admitted this to colleagues in a meeting.

They do need it. We have seen this before too. It's funny Yitzshak Shamir hated Bibi and said he would ruin Likud. Yet Bibi followed his lead by propping up the Islamists in order to undermine the more reasonable opposition. So you see the Israeli right really don't want to weed out extremism, they just want to manage it. We saw how that worked out last October.