ZVIKA KLEIN (Jpost.com 26-10-24)
As dawn broke over Tehran on Saturday, it wasn’t the usual hum of a busy city greeting the morning.
Instead, the reverberations of precision strikes echoed across Iran’s strategic landscape. You could almost picture the startled faces behind closed doors in Iran’s power centers, scrambling to understand how Israel managed to pull off an operation so audacious, so brazen, and, yet, so meticulously calculated.
For more than three hours, Israel struck with unprecedented precision, unmasking a simple truth: Tehran, for all its bluster, isn’t untouchable.
You can almost feel the tectonic plates shifting under Iran’s feet, as the “regional power” finds itself reeling, looking a lot less like the force it projects to the world and a lot more like Hezbollah, scrambling to avoid the light.
Imagine the dilemma for Iran’s leadership – retaliate and risk a spiral that might
