Negotiating with enemies is actually a good thing. Maybe they saw Israel’s precise targeting vs their failed barrage of rockets that got shot down and figured that the threat of war with the west isn’t all what they make it out to be.
Iran deescalated by launching an attack that's easy to defend against, while costing Israel and their allies a billion dollars. This is the outcome they wanted from the start.
That's bs and I don't know why people keep saying that. They launched ballistic missiles and cruise missiles along side a ton of drones. They had no way to know that the defense would destroy almost all of it against ahead of time. They wanted to do some damage but fell flat.
The attack was on an unprecedented scale and tested air defense systems in ways they have never experienced before. It wasn't a mastermind bluff at de-escalation. They got lucky it didn't turn into something much bigger.
hey launched ballistic missiles and cruise missiles along side a ton of drones. They had no way to know that the defense would destroy almost all of it against ahead of time.
The defense was Israel, the US, the UK and I think someone else I don't remember. There was no way they were overwhelming all of that, and they knew it. Remember that they warned ahead of time and gave everyone time to prepare for the attack. If they wanted to deal damage they'd at least do a surprise attack.
Again, Iran never wanted war with Israel. They needed to save face after Israel bombed their consulate, but were never after a full blown conflict.
I don't think you really know the scale of the attack. It set several records.
They didn't really give any warning other then "we are going to retaliate eventually" for a while leading up to it. The actual attack itself had no warning.
It definitely went worse then they thought it would with almost all munitions countered. You're giving them way too much credit.
These anti air systems have never, and let me reiterate that, NEVER, had to deal with this before. Especially in regards to the ballistic missiles which the anti ballistic systems had very little real world testing. It's first real use against ballistic missiles were only months earlier against Yemen munitions.
There was simply no way for the Iranians to make an accurate estimation for how many would actually get through and therefore they were probably expecting to do a bit better.
They chose to only target military installations and that was their hope for de-escalation, like it did with the Americans years before, not that (almost) nothing would get through.
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