Israel ’s attack on Iran has exposed critical weaknesses in Tehran’s broader military strategy. While Iran still has untapped shorter-range capabilities it could deploy in its immediate neighbourhood, its depleted medium-range missile arsenal and weakened regional allies leave it with limited options for retaliation against Israel . Israel ' s retaliation against Iran highlights the Islamic Republic's military weakness and sense of strategic vulnerability. Will it elicit a change in the right direction? Several senior military officials and top nuclear scientists have been killed, while Israel has been able to strike targets in the Iranian capital, Tehran, with relative ease after crippling. The fact that leading Iranian nuclear scientists and top military commanders were killed in their homes or command centres, despite public warnings of an imminent Israeli attack, is astonishing. Iran appears to have learned nothing. If it cannot protect its most vital assets, how can it hope to safeguard less important ones? The exchange illustrates precisely why Iran has invested in terrorism, proxies and unconventional operations, including those very close to Israel , because when a direct comparison is made between the offensive power of its conventional forces and those of Israel , Iran is inferior. Israel aimed to accomplish three primary objectives in this strike: Inflict significant damage to Iran’s military capabilities. Expose the Iranian regime’s weakness and inability to defend itself. Avoid triggering a broader conflict or an extended war of attrition. An initial assessment suggests that Israel achieved all three goals. The Israel Defense Forces have seriously undermined Iran’s regional military capabilities, both by attacking the leaders of Hamas and Hizbullah and by launching airstrikes against Iran that damaged its ability to produce missiles. Israel and its close military partners, including the United States, effectively neutralized both strikes, but their success belies the technical complexity of such a multinational missile. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel presented Iran’s sophisticated ballistic missiles as a critical threat to Israel ’s survival. Now, with Iran's security forces having undergone their most serious challenge to date as state institutions, military sites and personnel were targeted on a daily basis by Israel , a group known.
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