Western Standard - March 03, 2026


Why Iran’s Multi-Front Israel Attack Collapsed Before It Began


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53 seconds

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157.95328

Word count

142

Sentence count

4


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00:00:00.000 Iran's plan was to essentially launch an attack with Hezbollah, with Hamas at the same time,
00:00:06.760 and to shower ballistic missiles across Tel Aviv so that all three of these factors combined would cause the collapse of the Israeli state.
00:00:16.520 Had Hezbollah attacked the same day as October 7th, the results would have been catastrophic.
00:00:23.540 Northern Israel would have been occupied.
00:00:25.060 um you could have seen hostile forces in tel aviv but there was a disconnect right so hamas launched
00:00:33.760 their attack without consulting hezbollah the reason why is a bit unclear some speculate that
00:00:39.820 they wanted to hog all the glory because they were the junior partner here and then hezbollah was not
00:00:45.280 prepared and by the time they were prepared the northern military had been uh they also don't
00:00:51.060 particularly like each other again you know they're both radical