READ: How Israel failed in Iran

Published June 25, 2025

Political commentator Ori Goldberg asks what Israel actually accomplished after its bombing campaign of Iran?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared two goals in launching the short-lived war: “decapitating” Iran’s nuclear programme and “regime change”.

Was the nuclear programme decapitated? The answer is likely negative, writes Goldberg.

Did Israel generate “regime change” in Iran? No, and Israel likely did the opposite, he writes.

“Iranians saw Iran in its entirety under attack and not just ‘the regime’.”

Many Iranians who considered themselves staunch opponents of the regime and especially of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have now found themselves supporting both as a result of Israel’s attack, he adds.

Read Goldberg’s piece on Al Jazeera here.

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