The war against the Ayatollah’s regime is destroying more than launchers, depots, and proxies. It is destroying alibis. For decades, much of the Arab world denounced Israel in public, hid behind American power in private, and pretended Iran could be contained without direct confrontation. That lie is dying.

Tehran has exposed the region’s central truth: the greatest threat was never the Jewish state that built deterrence, but the revolutionary regime that exports coercion, fire, and disorder.

What summits and peace-process theater could not achieve, this war may: expand the Abraham Accords. Not through goodwill, but through fear. That shift is not symbolic. Iran’s aggression is pushing the Gulf toward Israel because Arab states now need deterrence, not rhetoric. The more Iran threatens ports, airports, desalination plants, gas facilities, terminals, and shipping lanes, the less Israel looks like a political inconvenience and a hard-security anchor.

The Gulf has learned the price of exposure. For example, Iran’s threat to the Strait of Hormuz and its permanent suicide drone attacks forced the United Arab Emirates and Qatar to look for Ukrainian anti-drone systems assistance. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia had to lean harder on its East-West........

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