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Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-899309
Regime Change Was Never Achievable with Current War
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - It all depends on the question you ask. If you ask why Israel and the U.S. haven't already succeeded at regime change, then Iran is the winner. But if you speak to top IDF and Mossad officials, immediate regime change was never in play - that the most the current war could achieve was to help improve conditions for regime change. The real goals of the last two wars with Iran in June 2025 and early 2026 were to push back two existential threats by a couple of years: nuclear weapons and massive ballistic missile volumes. Those two primary goals were unequivocally achieved. Israel has failed to defeat Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas. But Israel has thoroughly bludgeoned and weakened all of those enemies in ways that cannot be restored in a year or two, and may not be fully restorable.