After decades of failed deterrence and diplomacy, the United States and Israel are confronting the ideological and military engine of the Islamic Republic.
The joint U.S.-Israel military strikes on Iran mark more than a tactical military operation. U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have established a new strategic realignment that has superseded any past American administration since the founding of Israel in 1948.
Both Trump and Netanyahu have recognized and countered the radical messianic underpinnings of the Iranian regime’s jihad against the West and Israel. This shared mission to neuter and dismantle the Islamic Republic’s terror regime upgrades the collaboration between the United States and Israel, which had formerly limited its efforts to deterring and containing the regime’s nuclear and ballistic missile threats. The joint June 2025 U.S.-Israel attack marked a sharp pivot away from containment to prevention.
This new approach is no small achievement. Since 1979, and particularly since the early 1980s, when the Iranian regime under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini established its main Hezbollah proxy, U.S.-Israel cooperation had failed to target the source of the Iranian regime’s regional and global terror network.