As Israel’s attacks and incendiary rhetoric intensify, chilling parallels emerge to the discredited claims made before US invasion of Iraq
For Middle East experts, such rhetoric is a clear signal of Netanyahu’s underlying ambition to force regime change in Tehran, or perhaps even precipitate the collapse of the Iranian state.
Yet analysts agree that Israel alone lacks the military might to so thoroughly undermine the Iranian regime – unless Trump decides to intervene.
“Without US support, Israel cannot weaken the Iranian government to such an extent as to force its capitulation,” said Annelle Rodriguez Sheline, a Middle East research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft think tank in the US.
