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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Archie Bland

Tuesday briefing: What Israel really wants in Iran – and what might come next

Emergency personnel in Tel Aviv yesterday following a missile attack from Iran on Israel.
Emergency personnel in Tel Aviv yesterday following a missile attack from Iran on Israel. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

Good morning. As the conflict between Iran and Israel has heated up in the days since Israel’s surprise attack last week, a consensus has emerged that, while Tehran’s nuclear ambitions have been severely compromised, it is all but impossible for Israel to extinguish them permanently without American support.

Nonetheless, Israel hopes that scuttling Iran’s nuclear talks with the US and severely weakening the regime as a military threat will make its gambit worthwhile. And there is another goal that Benjamin Netanyahu appears to believe is possible: regime change.

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