The Art of Deception: How Israel’s Operation Rising Lion Dismantled Iran from Within

Peloni:  Middle East scholar at the Hudson Institute, Zineb Riboua, discusses Operation Rising Lion.  Riboua suggests that the Iranians were complacent, ignoring the tell-tale signs of Israel’s likely strategy which were missed by Iran and which were present in the killing of Haniyeh and the decapitating of Hezbollah in the Pagers Attack.  She also relates the importance of the ongoing protests in Iran which likely aided Israel’s human intellegence operation in planning and staging its offensive.  In the aftermath of the attack Riboua suggests that Iran’s weakness will lead to a slow disintegration of the the Iranian crescent.  She also discusses the possible effects of the recent war on the Iranian popultion.