Thank you so much!

I think part of my issue was that I underestimated Iran and only thought of it as a victim that landed a good couple hits due to their intelligence and counterintelligence rather than a force that was united, prepared and has enough reserves and production capabilities to take on the genocidal states. Especially the point of Iran becoming stronger and Israel not having good prospects of being able to keep up in the future leading to desperation helped me understand it a bit better.

Other comments mentioned the counterintelligence eroding the Intel of the US and them relying on wonky info now due to said desperation as well.

This makes me a little bit more (cautiously) optimistic. Thank you!