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Israel Was Facing Destruction at the Hands of Iran
(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - The Iranian regime was increasingly convinced that it would soon be able to destroy Israel. The regime drew encouragement from the success of the Oct. 7 massacre which apparently confirmed Israel's vulnerability. Israel's military and security chiefs told the country's political leaders in recent months that Israel had to go to war against Iran not much later that June. The end of 2025 would be too late. Iran was a few weeks away from nuclear weapons, and the regime's fast-growing ballistic missile capability was rapidly becoming an existential threat as well. So Israel went to war and saved itself. The IDF had assessed that Iran would try to fire 300-500 missiles in its initial response to an Israeli attack. That's why the order was given to alert the entire country, with screeching alarms on every cellphone as the Israeli attack began in the early hours of June 13. The Iranian reaction began only 18 hours after Israel's strike. The regime is still standing, and its leader, Ali Khamenei, emerged from his bunker to proclaim that Iran had won the war. It did not. Israel maintained air supremacy over Tehran, and was selecting targets at will, with the capacity to continue to do so.