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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/04/04/what-is-irans-plan-as-the-war-enters-its-second-month/
A War of Psychological Attrition
(Israel Hayom) Ariel Kahana - In physical terms, the damage Iran is inflicting on the Americans, the Gulf states or Israel is minimal. By contrast, Iran is sustaining extremely heavy blows. Its economy was already shattered before the campaign began. Its military capabilities are being stripped away hour by hour. That means the pace at which it is harming Israel and other countries in the region is negligible compared with what it had planned. Unlike Iran, those countries are, by and large, continuing to function, while the disruption to daily life caused by missiles and drones remains relatively limited. Iran is trying to create the impression that the cost of the war is unbearable. But what is worse: gasoline at $4 a gallon, or Iran with an arsenal of intercontinental nuclear missiles? What poses a greater threat to the world: a short-term recession, or a deranged regime operating an ocean of drones in the Strait of Hormuz, terrorist cells across the planet, and seeking to impose Shiite belief on humanity by force? Iran knows the West's weak points, its short-sightedness, short patience, and short-time horizon. In Tehran they know that in the West, people will talk about one American aircraft being shot down a thousand times more than they will about dozens of Iranian aircraft destroyed, hundreds of missiles intercepted and thousands of drones thwarted. That is the asymmetric psychological war they are hoping to win.