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Iran's strategy of attacking its neighbors, including the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, in order to pressure the US to stop military operations has backfired.
Iran's attacks have reinforced the determination of neighboring Arab states that the Iranian regime needs to be removed.
Israel is acting as a peer partner to the United States in the war against Iran, not just a minor ally.
Israel has concluded that it cannot indefinitely retard Iran's nuclear program and other malign activities through limited strikes alone, necessitating a fundamental regime change.
On the first day of the conflict with Iran, the Israeli Air Force conducted approximately 550 separate strikes using 200 strike aircraft.
US stocks of missile and air defense interceptors have been depleted by supplying Ukraine for four years and helping defend Israel for the last year and a half.
Israel claims to have destroyed 50% of Iran's missile launchers.
The US administration has provided shifting rationales for the timing of its military operation against Iran and shifting discussions of how the conflict ends.
The current US administration has less public support for its military operation against Iran than the Bush administration had for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
The current US administration has less public support for its military operation against Iran than the Obama administration had for its counter-ISIL operation in 2014-2015.
The military operation against Iran raises serious constitutional questions because Congress was not involved beyond a few top-level briefings.
Russia and China have remained largely silent on the US-Iran conflict, offering only pro forma objections.