The U.S. and Israel’s diverging interests will prolong the war, but Iran will determine its outcome
A month into the Iran war, it is clear that Israel aims to disrupt any possible off-ramp the Trump administration and Iran may be looking for to end the fighting, and that Iran, not the U.S., is the key actor that will determine how the war ends.
It’s definitely true that the US and Israel’s different goals are making things much more complicated. I’m also wondering how much Iran’s calculations are shaping the conflict’s next moves.