Last week, the Israeli Air Force struck a cache of long-range missiles belonging to Hezbollah and put the Shia militia on notice. As air force chief Major-General Amir Eshel explained, “Our ability today to attack targets on a large scale and with high precision is about 15 times greater than what we did in the (2006) war” with Hezbollah.
Nonetheless, Hezbollah and its patrons in Iran are confident. Israel, from their perspective, is just an American asset, and they’ve got the Obama administration in hand. The White House is marketing the proposed nuclear deal with Iran as a “win-win” agreement, but that’s not how Iran’s proxy in Lebanon sees it. In the longstanding standoff between America and Iran, there has to be a winner and a loser. Iran won and the United States lost.
