Israel’s Iran strategy has stopped working, and Iran has made sure it can never pretend otherwise ever again. Right, so Israel hasn’t just annoyed Iran again, it’s blown a hole in the one thing that used to keep this confrontation from running off the rails, and it can’t pretend it didn’t see it coming this time either, because their reaction has completely given the game away. We’ve seen this routine for years: Israel threatens on stage, reassures off-camera, and treats everyone else like extras who’ll stand still while it controls the countdown. This time that reassurance got thrown back in their face, dismissed as a lie, and even treated as part of the threat itself. Iran has had enough. It has now put it in writing that words count, signals count, and waiting to be hit next time before they react, is no longer a rule it says it will abide by. ...