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The Israeli strike on Iran at dawn yesterday, Saturday, can be described as a high-level show of force coordinated by the United States of America, which was able to impose on Israel the level and limited general framework of this strike, according to which the Americans seek to bring both Iran and Israel down from the tree after they climbed it, and raised the level of threats that the United States succeeded in neutralizing with its cunning diplomacy, and turning the missile and bombing war into a quiet cold war that paves the way for drawing the features of a new phase, which everyone wants according to their own size, but the international balances seem much larger than the size of a state or republic.

After fiery statements and major threats by Israeli officials, the strike on Iran came as a farce that was mocked by senior Israeli analysts and media figures. Kan Channel correspondent Roi Kais said: “If I were Khamenei, I would go back to sleep and check what happened in the morning.” As for the head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, Avigdor Lieberman, he said that the Israeli attack on Iran was an attempt to buy calm instead of decisiveness, and he accused the Israeli government of carrying out show-offs and public relations operations, and this is what actually happened, as Iran was informed in advance of the strikes and their timing on Tehran and some cities through messages via other countries, in which Israel asked Iran to stop the escalation and not respond to its limited strikes.

Iran was informed by a message that arrived on Friday via several countries several hours before the attack, as it was provided by Israel with the targets that would be attacked, which made Iran well prepared for the limited bombing, so much so that its general guide declared before the strikes that Iran was preparing for war, after he received messages conveyed to Iran by the Dutch Foreign Minister Casper Veldkamp, who previously served as the Dutch ambassador to Israel.

With the increasing intensity and frequency of the settlers’ criticism of Netanyahu, whose popularity rose in opinion polls during the assassinations, the Israeli response to Iran, which some sources described as a mockery, will once again affect Netanyahu and his government. With the threat of withdrawing from the ground operation in Lebanon, under the pretext of achieving the desired goals, the popularity of the Likud leader will inevitably decline. The most pressing question in all this political grinding remains: What will the situation look like today with the negotiations that will resume in Doha to discuss the possibility of reaching an agreement to release some Israeli detainees in exchange for Palestinian prisoners? Are we on the cusp of a new phase that paves the way for defusing the Israeli weapons that destroyed the Strip?

Did Iran emerge victorious in balancing its political weight in the region, and what will be its pressure role with regard to the Gaza Strip and Lebanon fronts?

Questions whose answers still seem to be in the hands of politicians and their undeclared consultations and negotiations.