Sorry can't archive.is rolling breaking news. Here's the short article anyway
Workers and firefighters at an apartment building hit by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran on Monday. Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times
With the growing potential for talks between the United States and Iran, the Israeli military is striking as many key targets as it can, concerned the war could soon be brought to a halt, two senior Israeli officials and two people briefed on the matter said.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered that every effort be made over the next 48 hours to destroy as much as possible of the Iranian arms industry, according to the two officials.
The order came after Mr. Netanyahu’s government obtained a copy of a U.S.-drafted, 15-point plan to end the war, which had been sent to Iran, the officials said, one of whom was present at meetings at which it was discussed.
The haste — and Thursday’s deadline — reflected a concern in the Israeli government that President Trump could announce peace talks at any moment, the officials and the two people briefed on the matter said. All spoke on the condition anonymity to discuss sensitive matters of national security.
The Trump administration has not confirmed or denied the existence of a plan, or whether such a plan has been passed to Iran.
Israel is acutely concerned about the possibility of a deal when it has yet to fulfill its key war aims. Those aims are eliminating Iran’s ballistic-missile threat, ensuring Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon and creating the conditions under which the Iranian people could rise up against their government.
“If you do not obtain the three objectives, you will not be able to end the war,” Boaz Bismuth, a member of Mr. Netanyahu’s party and chairman of the foreign affairs and defense committee in Parliament, said in an interview.
Though the U.S. plan was highly general in its terms, with much still to be determined, it was detailed enough to alarm Mr. Netanyahu, his staff and Israel’s defense chiefs, the officials said. The Israeli government believed the plan did not ensure that Iran’s nuclear program and ballistic-missile capabilities would be sufficiently curbed.
Mr. Netanyahu gave the order to accelerate airstrikes in Iran at a tense meeting on Tuesday, deep underground in the bowels of Israel’s Tel Aviv military headquarters. It followed briefings by top commanders, including the heads of the air force and of military intelligence, on what targets could still be struck, the two officials said.
Iran is not so stupid to negotiate again when they were attacked twice during negotiations (the US is sending ground troops that are scheduled to land later this week). Iran's demands of total US withdrawal from the region, and compensation for damages isn't something I can see Trump's ego will agree to, it will be a huge embarrassment to the hegemon on the world stage.
Iran's other demand of a guarantee of no further attacks and assassinations is pointless because the Epstein coalition can't be trusted. If Iran softens their demands and a cease fire is struck, it just gives time for Israel to rebuild their interceptors and they'll get attacked again in the future.