The Islamic Republic of Iran cannot win the current war with Israel and the United States. Iran chose him anyway, and in doing so demonstrated that the Islamic Republic does not organise its most important decisions around what its enemies find acceptable. Netanyahu has spent those decades arguing, with increasing urgency, that Iran’s regime is an existential threat that cannot be managed or contained, only eliminated. For Israel, this war is, at its core, a war about whether the Islamic Republic can be made to cease to exist. Netanyahu wants the war to lay the foundation for the end of the Islamic Republic.

Source: Indian Express March 14, 2026 13:26 UTC