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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/22/united-states-trump-bombing-iran/
Iran Badly Miscalculated, Now It's Paying the Price
(Washington Post) Max Boot - The U.S. attack on Iran is another ripple effect from Hamas's attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. In launching its barbaric assault on Israel, Iranian-backed Hamas wanted to draw its regional partners into a broader war that, it hoped, would lead to the destruction of the Jewish state. But instead, Hamas set in motion a train of events that resulted in the destruction of Iranian power across the region. Much of Gaza has been razed, Hamas is a shadow of its former self, and most of its commanders are dead including Yahya Sinwar, the architect of 10/7. Hizbullah, which followed up by rocketing northern Israel for many months, has been decimated, its longtime leader, Hasan Nasrallah, is also dead, along with most of its senior commanders. Another Iranian client, Bashar al-Assad, was toppled by rebels in Syria late last year. It is clear that Iran made a terrible miscalculation by dragging its feet on negotiations. Iranian negotiators, overestimating their country's power and leverage, took a tough line by resisting U.S. demands to give up all of their enrichment capacity. Even while talking with the U.S., the Iranians kept enriching uranium to near-weapons-grade levels, raising alarms in Jerusalem. They thought they could get away with it. They were wrong.