2025 is the year of reckoning between Iran and Israel

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the elimination of Hamas’s top leaders in Gaza, the destruction of Hezbollah’s capabilities in Lebanon, the killing of its leaders, one after the other, and the destruction of the party’s military infrastructure represent a series of huge victories for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and 2025 will be the year of reckoning with Iran, his country’s archenemy.

Benjamin Netanyahu is in the process of consolidating his strategic goals, which are:

1-Tightening his military control over the Gaza Strip,

2-Thwarting Iran’s nuclear ambitions,

3-Taking advantage of the disintegration of Iran’s allies – Palestinian Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah, and the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Without Syria, the alliances that Iran has fostered for decades have disintegrated, and with Iran’s influence weakened, Israel emerges as the dominant power in the region.

The Israeli prime minister is preparing to focus on Iran’s nuclear ambitions and its missile program, and to apply an uncompromising focus on dismantling and neutralizing these strategic threats to Israel.

Middle East political and military observers tell Reuters that Iran faces a stark choice: either continue its uranium enrichment program, or scale back its nuclear activities and agree to negotiations.

“Iran is very vulnerable to an Israeli attack, especially against its nuclear program, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel did that, but that doesn’t absolve Iran,” Joost R. Hiltermann, Middle East and North Africa director at the International Crisis Group, told Reuters.

President-elect Donald Trump, who withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran in 2018 during his first term, is likely to tighten sanctions on Iran’s oil industry during his next term, despite calls for a return to negotiations from critics who see diplomacy as a more effective long-term policy.

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