MORE: Israel pursued a campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear program and, with US support, was largely successful in doing so.

Other key takeaways from our assessment of the Israel-Iran War since June 12⬇️(1/3)

Israel also pursued two supporting lines of effort to limit Iran’s retaliation and create an off-ramp by creating conditions that would pressure Iran into terminating the conflict. Israel pressured Iran by creating a credible threat of regime destabilization.

The limited nature of strikes against internal security institutions suggests that the IDF sought to demonstrate a credible threat to regime stability rather than topple or meaningfully destabilize the regime. A focused, well-designed regime destabilization campaign would have systematically destroyed regime institutions, which did not happen.

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