SAEDNEWS: What began as a dramatic assault aimed at dismantling Iran’s nuclear program and collapsing its government ended in strategic failure for Israel and the U.S., revealing a profound misreading of Iran’s resilience and internal cohesion.
According to Saed News, the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in June 2025, publicly framed as a campaign to eliminate Tehran’s nuclear capability, has unraveled into a case study in miscalculation. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former U.S. President Donald Trump declared victory after launching strikes on nuclear sites and assassinating top Iranian figures, the aftermath suggests a far murkier picture.
Western claims that Iran’s nuclear infrastructure had been obliterated were swiftly challenged by experts. American outlets reported that key facilities—entrenched deep underground—remained intact, and the fate of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile remains unknown. Iran’s response was equally significant: not only did it rain missiles on Israeli cities for days, but it also struck the vital U.S. airbase in Qatar, with six of twelve missiles reportedly hitting their mark—an incident the Trump camp continues to downplay.
More startling, however, were revelations that the military assault was only part of a broader regime change effort modeled on Syria’s collapse in 2024. According to sources and corroborated audio released by The Washington Post, Israeli operatives contacted thousands of Iranian officials after assassinations began, demanding they defect or die. The hope was to trigger internal disintegration akin to the fall of Damascus—a fantasy Netanyahu hinted at in propaganda videos showing supposed Iranian leaders fleeing Tehran.
But the plan failed. Iran’s military hierarchy quickly reorganized, and the political elite unified behind Ayatollah Khamenei. Unlike Syria or the 1953 CIA coup against Prime Minister Mossadegh—when U.S. operatives used sacks of cash to subvert the state—2025 saw a hardened Iran, immune to bribes, blackmail, and blitzkrieg.
This failed operation has raised a pressing question in policy circles: why do Western powers, and their allies like Israel, continue to underestimate Iran’s political evolution since the 1979 revolution? The delusion that Tehran can be coerced into submission—as in the colonial past—seems, once again, to have met reality on Iranian soil.
