Guardian: Support for Tel Aviv in Washington Declines Amid Doubts over Iran Policy
The Guardian, citing Western sources, reports that political support for Tel Aviv in Washington has decreased, with some American officials expressing doubts about the management of tensions with Iran.
According to the analysis, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Israeli regime, spoke of a possible “short and easy” war during his meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on December 29 last year, prior to the latest phase of tensions with Iran, and tried to secure U.S. support. The Guardian describes this meeting as the starting point of coordination for a wide-ranging military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The report states that Israeli regime officials, relying on their own intelligence assessments, claimed that Iran’s internal conditions were fragile—a claim that, according to American sources, did not align with the realities on the ground. These sources confirmed that the predictions about the ease of the conflict did not materialize.
It was also reported that J.D. Vance, the U.S. Vice President, called the promises of an “easy war” unrealistic during a frank discussion with Netanyahu.
Security experts who spoke with The Guardian estimated the potential costs of such a war in the billions of dollars and discussed its consequences for U.S. support of Ukraine as well as for the global economy.
The analysis concludes by emphasizing that part of the public opinion and some political leaders in the U.S. and Europe do not see a military solution as a sustainable option for managing tensions with Iran, preferring diplomatic approaches instead.
