Why hasn’t Israel rejoined the US war with Iran?
Sima Shine, former head of research and evaluation at Mossad and Iran expert at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, explains why she thinks Donald Trump has put a break on Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu participating in the latest round of fighting.
On part one of today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant asks her about the explosive news about Israel’s Operation Puss in Boots, a yearslong, multi-pronged effort to overthrow the Iranian regime and install the most unlikely of candidates, arch Israeli enemy former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
She reveals what led military intelligence to rebel against the plan spearheaded by Netanyahu and Mossad, how it went ahead anyway, and why the Kurdish invasion plan would never have worked.
Watch part two of today’s episode about Trump’s five-hour blitz of Iran and Iranian strikes on US bases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
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CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Sima Shine, director of the Iran and the Shiite Axis Research Program at INSS @INSSIsrael
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Inside the Mossad Plot to Install Israel's Arch-enemy Ahmadinejad as Iran's Leader
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-07-13/ty-article-magazine/.premium/inside-the-mossad-plot-to-install-ahamadinijad-as-irans-leader/0000019f-5b28-de66-a5bf-5b7b3bbd0000
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