Working hard to prevent an Iran-Israel war, which the latter will easily win anyway.
There would be literally nothing easy about fighting Iran, unless your idea of fighting is just to glass the entire country. Because any kind of conventional warfare with Iran would make Iraq and Afganistan look like kindergarden in comparison. And that's not to say that Iran is some kind of superpower - it's absolutely not. Just that the terrain is extremely difficult, the army is actually decently equipped and trained, and it's a huge and very populous country.
Certainly they have that capability, and there's plenty of evidence that they do targeted killings, but that doesn't appear to be their MO when invading someone.
Btw, one of the best sources in this conflict is Israeli media. Especially the Hebrew language one.
The only way Israel can have a proper war with Iran is by attacking Hesbollah, but thats a whole different topic.
Which one are we talking about?
I think this sort of discussion is best left off HN.
"We've got to muster the political will, industrial capacity, economic leverage, and military capability to defeat Russia first in order to isolate/deter Iran and deter China from making a terrible miscalculation."
It's better for an error message to explain what the end user likely needs to know, rather than you heroically debugging it for them.
https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...
What fraction of its arsenal do you think Iran used up on Friday? That's the real question. If half, Israel can easily smack Iran with impunity.
What if it was only 5%? Shooting half their stockpile would be pretty stupid, after all.
Bibi, on the other hand, avoids jail time only as long as Ben-Gvir keeps his government propped up. And Gvir wants war.