Netanyahu’s Dirty Iran Bet Won’t Save Him Now

Netanyahu admits Iran may not break, US intel says it hasn’t, and the whole filthy war is starting to blow back on the people who sold it. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has finally crawled out from whatever rock he has been hiding under as Iranian missiles hammer Israel, all his own doing of course, and has now said out loud that his gamble may fail. After all the dead, after all the bombing, after all the talk about strength and deterrence and teaching enemies lessons they will never forget, the man selling the war has had to admit he cannot promise the result. He says Israel is creating the conditions for toppling Iran’s government, but he cannot tell you with certainty that Iranians will do it. So, you mean to say that after taking out their Supreme Leader on day one, they didn’t scatter and demand regime change? Well of course they didn’t! You did the one thing sure to unify them! And just to salt that wound that bit further, reporting on US intelligence says Iran’s leadership is still very much in control, not close to collapse at all and frankly breathing fire at this point, not a cat in hells chance of this ending now, when the new guy in charge is the son of the old supreme leader, and not only did you kill his father, you took out half his family with him. So the first thing to get straight here is brutally simple: the war’s main salesman is now admitting this hasn’t gone to plan, all while the intelligence says the target state is very much still standing, still active and that leaves Netanyahu with a war still running and no guaranteed political payoff, especially as munitions continue to dry up faster than price rises at our petrol pumps. Donald Trump hasn’t helped matters either, because the delusional fool keeps speaking as if the thing is already won while the region keeps answering back in fire.