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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-888910
Dismantling the Iranian Tiger with Remarkable Ease
(Jerusalem Post) Ben Caspit - The phrase "historic days" feels too small for the moment Israel is experiencing. Veterans of the Iranian threat are struggling to believe what is unfolding. After three decades of worst-case scenarios, of fear over Iranian power, the many-armed octopus of proxies, thousands of ballistic missiles, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Quds Force, and underground nuclear facilities, Israel and the U.S. now appear to be dismantling that Iranian tiger with remarkable ease. What once seemed a regional superpower now appears hollow and decaying. There is reason to hope that U.S. President Donald Trump will not waver, and that the extraordinary resolve now coming out of Washington will hold in the face of rising oil prices, domestic criticism, pressure from Gulf states, or some unforeseen military setback. The writer is a veteran Israeli journalist.