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The new war on Iran did not take anyone by surprise. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had openly laid the ground for it. While Netanyahu’s previous regional wars were justified under the banner of the “right to self-defense,” he was more explicit this time, invoking both the “preemptive” and “preventive” intentions. It is worth remembering here that, for many years, he tirelessly repeated his claim that Iran was “only a few months away” from producing a nuclear bomb.
In fact, the Israeli right has enjoyed striking confidence in recent years, reinforced by its growing trust in a crucial shift in Washington’s approach to developments in the region.
While the Democrats’ priorities toward the Middle East, during the presidencies of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, were founded on familiar and unconditional strategic support for Israel, they also took a less hostile approach toward Tehran. The justification lay in the existence, or rather the creation, of the phenomenon known as Daesh.
Daesh was a “desired” phenomenon used to inflame Sunni-Shiite sensitivities and perpetuate divisions in the Islamic world. Then the push toward divisive, fragmentary and deadly tensions among the region’s major ethnic groups — above all, Arabs, Persians, Turks, Kurds, Balochis and others. Once this “script” was enacted, the next stage would begin: the partition of existing entities, regardless of their size, alliances or frame of reference.
