Western Standard - March 03, 2026


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


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Length

53 seconds

Words per minute

157.95328

Word count

142

Sentence count

4

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

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On October 7th, 2007, Iran and Hamas launched a joint attack on Tel Aviv. It was meant to be an act of revenge for an earlier attack on the city by the Israeli military on the same day. Iran and Hezbollah were planning to attack Tel Aviv at the same time, and to shower ballistic missiles across Tel Aviv, causing the collapse of the Israeli state.

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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. 0.57
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 0.66
00:00:51.060 particularly like each other again you know they're both radical