Despite stunning early successes in Israel’s unprecedented strikes on Iran, a weekend of intensive bombardment and retaliation is raising questions about Israel’s exit strategy – how it can end this conflict with its ambitious goals achieved.

Tensions escalate in West Asia after Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites. Iran retaliates with missile and drone attacks. The strikes follow concerns about Iran's nuclear program and failed negotiations.

The most frightening scenario, considering the strategy Israel has employed in Lebanon, would be a series of attacks targeting lower-level figures, which could escalate to higher-level figures depending on the response or lack thereof, creating an even more frightening scenario than the current one.

Netanyahu’s success will measured by whether he can lock the US into yet another made-for-Israel Middle East war.

The attacks bore the twin hallmarks of Israeli military actions under Netanyahu: Tactically brilliant but lacking any strategic vision

Early Friday morning, Israel launched a historic wave of attacks against Iran – the latest phase of the Israel-Iran war that effectively began on October 7, 2023.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has weathered a series of challenges but Israel's unprecedented strikes mark his most serious crisis yet, threatening both the clerical system he leads and his own physical survival.

The missile and air war that Israel and Iran have spent decades planning for has come, and it is spectacular and terrifying. Israeli officials say they need at least two weeks to degrade Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities.

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