Iran-Israel-U.S.: The Logic of Attrition and the Geopolitical Endgame

I. Executive Summary The current conflict in the Middle East has progressively evolved from an initial phase of high-intensity “decapitation strikes” into a sustained “war of attrition.” While the joint U.S.-Israeli operation targeting Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, severely impacted the Iranian regime in the short term, it failed to dismantle its underlying will […]