The end of Iran’s strategic patience - Al Jazeera

The end of Iran’s strategic patience Years of US and Israeli pressure pushed Tehran from calibrated restraint to open regional confrontation. Since October 7, 2023, the United States and Israel believed that sustained diplomatic and military pressure on Iran would deter and degrade its capacity to fight. In the process, they degraded something else entirely: Iran’s willingness to remain constrained. The missiles and drones now striking across the Gulf show that Iran is no longer holding back. For years, Iran operated under a doctrine of “strategic patience”. This was a deliberate, calculated f

The end of Iran’s strategic patience Years of US and Israeli pressure pushed Tehran from calibrated restraint to open regional confrontation. Since October 7, 2023, the United States and Israel believed that sustained diplomatic and military pressure on Iran would deter and degrade its capacity to fight. In the process, they degraded something else entirely: Iran’s willingness to remain constrained. The missiles and drones now striking across the Gulf show that Iran is no longer holding back. For years, Iran operated under a doctrine of “strategic patience”. This was a deliberate, calculated f