I wonder what Iran is worried about. Will Israel find something in Gaza that will incriminate Iran? Will the infrastructure of Hamas disappear? Will several Iranian spies be captured in Gaza? Why are they fighting so hard to stop Israel from moving in and taking over Gaza? They don’t care about life. Certainly they don’t care about the lives of Palestinians. So what are they so worried about?
Iran is confused, this war is not going the way they thought it would. The US has not forced the Israelis to negotiate, although Israel will need to stop the war in about 3, maybe 6 weeks to keep their economy together (reservists will need to return to their civilian jobs by then).
What Hamas and by extension Iran overlooked is that without a credible threat by Russia to resupply the Arabs, the US has no real levers to pull to force Israel to do US bidding. Biden and his admin are caught in a vice of Dem party pressure groups, thus Bibi knows he can ignore most of Blinken’s imprecations, even if he can not just thumb his nose at Biden.
Thus the outcome is going to be what does Israel want it to be, vs what can they do to bring that about with effectively no outside actors able to materially determine the outcome.
IDF uncovers Hamas weapons cache, terror lab inside Gaza