The Iran war risks sucking in more countries – who benefits?

What the US and Israel likely envisioned as a short and decisive conflict threatens to spill over other borders – perhaps not accidentally

In the early hours of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, a certain kind of strategic storytelling almost wrote itself. In Washington and in West Jerusalem, the operation looked designed to behave like a demonstration of overwhelming control, brief in duration, sharp in intent, and psychologically decisive.