Der Iran ist geopolitisch so schwach wie seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr
Die NYT schreibt:
Israel’s sweeping attacks only highlighted that Iran is in its worst position in decades. It looks defenseless against Israeli strikes; its proxy forces, like Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, which were supposed to provide protection, have been decimated; its economy is in distress; its top military leaders have been killed in their beds; it faces an uncertain succession to its aging supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; and Israel turned a significant amount of Iran’s huge investment in its nuclear program into rubble.
Iran’s weakness is sure to accelerate the debate already going on inside the leadership about whether to finally build a nuclear weapon, despite its promises not to do so, as the best deterrent against an Israel that can bomb Iran now at will and to help ensure its security more broadly.
“A lot of people in Iran will see their backs to the wall, that regional deterrence has failed, the negotiations have gone nowhere and Israel is unleashed, and that the only real safeguard would be a nuclear weapon,” said Julien Barnes-Dacey of the European Council on Foreign Relations.