(Wall Street Journal) Elliot Kaufman - Since the start of the Israeli assault, the Iranian regime has been in shock and denial, says Sharona Mazalian Levi, a researcher at Tel Aviv University's Alliance Center for Iranian Studies. "The regime got so used to lying to the people, it came to believe its own propaganda," she says. Israel was on the road to collapse. Iran could never be seriously challenged. In reality, Israel, the size of New Jersey, was devastating Iran's nuclear program, ballistic-missile program and military chain of command. "The missile math now is very much in Israel's favor," Gen. David Petraeus, the former U.S. CENTCOM commander, said Wednesday. Unlike Russia or Ukraine, the Israelis also have air supremacy. "They can do anything they want, just about." That means Israel can also destroy any future Iranian start toward resuming nuclear enrichment. "This whole idea that this just sets them back a couple of years - I think that's nonsensical," Petraeus says. The nuclear program "will not only be destroyed now, and all of it, but Israel won't allow it to happen again." This puts the U.S. "in an enormous position of leverage."
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