⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 — Strategic Divergence: Analyzing the Fork in the Road Between U.S. and Israeli Policy on Iran, — THE JERUSALEM POST.

​➡️ For decades, the strategic objectives of the United States and Israel regarding Iran’s nuclear program have largely converged on preventing Tehran from acquiring an atomic weapon—viewed by Jerusalem as an existential threat and by Washington as a major catalyst for regional hegemony and a direct danger to the U.S. mainland. However, recent diplomatic maneuvers under U.S. President Donald Trump have exposed deep fault lines. The summer agreement brokered by Washington was heavily criticized by Israeli officials as a "bad deal" because it frontloaded the resolution of the Strait of Hormuz crisis while deferring critical nuclear safeguards and omitting Iran’s destructive ballistic missile capabilities, temporarily steering U.S. and Israeli strategic calculations onto diverging paths.

​➡️ The alignment shifted when Tehran overplayed its hand, pushing for humiliating concessions that ultimately prompted President Trump to abandon the arrangement and pivot toward a high-stakes economic containment strategy designed to wear down the regime before the November midterms. Despite mounting economic devastation within Iran, the ideological leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) remains defiant, setting the stage for a critical post-midterm crossroads where Washington must decide whether to resume aggressive military pressure or risk caving to domestic political pressures by pursuing another flawed diplomatic accommodation contrary to long-term Western security interests.

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