Ynet news March 22, 2025
Trump releases U.S. restraint, empowers Israel to confront Iran

POTUS's unprecedented threat to hold Tehran accountable for Houthi aggression marks a strategic shift, empowering Jerusalem to act against Iranian proxies amid renewed Gaza fighting

While our attention is understandably focused on the renewed fighting in Gaza, we could easily overlook one of the most transformative moments in the Middle East.

The president who ordered the liquidation of Qassem Sulimani, the commander of Iran’s al-Quds force, in 2020 is now threatening to do what no American leader has ever dared. He is not only putting a credible military option back on the table but waving it in the Ayatollah’s face.

The threat represents a radical departure from longstanding American policy going back to Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979
Not since 1988 when Ronald Reagan ordered the U.S. Navy to sink the Iranian ships that shot at Kuwaiti oil tankers, has Washington retaliated for Iranian attacks against American targets.

The list of such aggressions, from the kidnapping of American sailors in the Persian Gulf to the killing of American soldiers in Iraq, is very long.