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GWYNNE DYER: What options does Israel's Netanyahu still have?

Netanyahu ordered Israel's attack on Iran with a purpose: to protect his political future at home, says Gwynne Dyer, but what now?

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men,” said former French Premier Georges Clemenceau about a century ago, and it’s still true.

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Israel’s precisely timed surprise attack on Iran on Feb. 28 killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and seven of his closest allies in 30 seconds, but they turned out not to be indispensable at all.

“The problem is that Israel is in love with assassinations … and we never learn that it is not the solution. We have killed all the leaders of Hamas. They are still there. It’s the same with Hezbollah. The leaders are always replaced,” said Israeli intelligence analyst Yossi Melman.

And so they have been again in Iran.

Prime Minister Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu’s ‘decapitation’ attack went off perfectly: the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) even managed to kill 40 senior leaders in other parts of Iran at the same time. And yet all those assassinations achieved precisely nothing: the next tier of Iranian leaders just moved up, and the population did not rise up against them.

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