Message delivered. Message received? It certainly appears that way … for now.
Last night, Israel defied Joe Biden’s “Don’t II: Craven Boogaloo” advice and hit an airbase near Isfahan, as Jazz wrote a short time ago. Initial reports made it appear that Israel had opted for the nuclear option, as in ‘hitting all the identified nuclear sites in Iran.’ Instead, Israel opted for a ‘proof of concept’ model, demonstrating that they could penetrate Iranian air defenses at will.
That demonstration has apparently convinced the Iranians to back down. Not only are they signaling that they won’t respond, they’re claiming that the Israelis weren’t there in the first place:
Iranian media and officials described a small number of explosions, which they said resulted from Iran’s air defenses hitting three drones over the city of Isfahan. Notably, they referred to the incident as an attack by…
