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Source: https://jcfa.org/from-containment-to-prevention-the-trump-netanyahu-alignment-to-defeat-irans-jihad/
From Containment to Prevention: The Trump-Netanyahu Alignment to Defeat Iran's Jihad
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Dr. Dan Diker - The joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran represent a major strategic shift from containing Iran to actively preventing and dismantling the Islamic Republic's military, nuclear, and terror infrastructure. The partnership created an unprecedented level of strategic alignment and operational cooperation between the U.S. and Israel. Trump understood that the Palestinian issue has never been the engine fueling Middle Eastern instability. Rather, the Iranian regime's ideologically driven and religiously fueled campaign has sought to dominate the region through proxy terror, nuclear extortion, and political subversion. Iran's terror proxies are not expressions of political or territorial grievance. They are instruments of Tehran's messianic and imperial ambitions on their way to regional and global dominance. The senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recite religious invocations before missile strikes. Its ideological training, which now consumes more than half of all required IRGC instruction, frames the eradication of Israel and the defeat of America as divine obligations. Its leaders believe that triggering an apocalyptic conflict is a shortcut to heaven. Within the regime's doctrine of messianic jihad, those lost in the fight against the West are martyrs, and those at home who rebel against the regime are heretics deserving of death. The writer is President of the Jerusalem Center.