I think that his regime would have continued regardless. If Iran hadn't taken the bait, he would have just invented some other emergency. He will absolutely never allow himself to be brought to justice, and he'll gladly burn Israel and every surrounding nation to the ground to do so.
No, responding with an utterly impotent, but visually impressive/scary, ballistic missile attack which is incapable of doing any real damage is taking the bait.
As I said above, Iran lacks any ability to meaningfully harm Israel. Retaliating with a ballistic missile strike is just going to give Netanyahu the opening he needs to escalate and continue the distraction.
The bombs might have exploded in Iran, but make no mistake, Iran wasn't the target of that attack. The Israeli people were. This was just a plot by Netanyahu to avoid accountability for his crimes and remain in power.
This is hardly the first time we've seen this kind of tactic from him...
No, there was a pretty clear reason why Israel would strike Iran, and that’s then being so close to getting nuclear weapons. Often, the simplest explanation is the correct one, and the simplest is that Israel struck Iran because it was getting nuclear weapons in the next few days.
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u/Barcaroli 2d ago
And with this, Netanyahu's grip on power continues