In the early hours of the campaign’s opening night, planners in Washington and Jerusalem were watching the same screens. Satellite feeds confirmed what intelligence analysts had assessed for months: key elements of Iran’s military command structure were exposed. Target packages that had been refined through weeks of planning were now moving toward execution. Within minutes, the first wave of strikes moved toward their targets.
Operationally, the plan was elegant. The targets were well chosen. The timing precise.
But the most important question confronting the people in those rooms was not whether the strikes would succeed. It was what would happen if they did.
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