Don't fall for the regime change talk. Israel is 'mowing the lawn' in Iran

Israel's bombardment of Iran strikingly resembles its previous wars against Hamas and Hezbollah: a form of perpetual conflict management which can never achieve the 'total victory' of its most delusional propagandists and which guarantees this third Gulf War won't be the last

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Don't fall for the regime change talk. Israel is 'mowing the lawn' in Iran

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Israel's bombardment of Iran strikingly resembles its previous wars against Hamas and Hezbollah: a form of perpetual conflict management which can never achieve the 'total victory' of its most delusional propagandists and which guarantees this third Gulf War won't be the last

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Joshua Leifer

09:01 AM • March 13 2026 IST

In the early 2010s, Israeli military officials began to describe the army's periodic offensives in Gaza, typically conducted through airstrikes and artillery barrages, as "mowing the lawn."

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