The collapse of Iran’s Islamic regime would amount to a strategic earthquake for both Israel and the United States, reshaping the Middle East in ways unseen since the end of the Cold War. It would remove the central engine driving regional instability, terrorism, and nuclear escalation.
For Israel, the end of the Islamic Republic would eliminate its most serious existential threat. Tehran’s clerical leadership has openly defined Israel’s destruction as an ideological goal and spent decades constructing a ring of terror proxies to execute it.
Without the regime in place, the financial, military, and strategic lifeline sustaining Hezbollah, Hamas, and other Iranian-backed terrorist organizations would either collapse or be severely weakened. The result would be a dramatic reduction in the risk of a coordinated multi-front war and the lifting of the nuclear shadow looming over Israel’s future.
With the Iranian threat removed, regional normalization would accelerate, strengthening the Abraham Accords and deepening cooperation between Israel and Arab states that have long viewed Tehran—not Jerusalem—as the primary danger to their security.
