An Israeli security source told N12 that Prime Minister Netanyahu may have hoped the Dahiyeh strike would escalate the situation and collapse the negotiations with Iran, but the strike achieved the opposite — giving the agreement a major push forward.
A security source told Israeli media that the IAF strike in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut has backfired on Prime Minister Netanyahu's anticipated strategy. According to the source, cited by N12, Netanyahu may have calculated that hitting Hezbollah's nerve center in southern Beirut would provoke escalation and collapse the emerging U.S.-Iran nuclear deal. Instead, the source assessed, the strike gave the agreement a major boost. The assessment comes amid mounting context: a series of U.S. and Israeli strikes in Lebanon and Iran over recent weeks has fueled negotiations rather than derailing them, as The Zioneer has reported. The source did not elaborate on which specific steps in the negotiation track gained momentum after the strike, and the claim remains an attributed analysis from a single security official — the wider picture across Israeli and U.S. government channels has not been publicly confirmed.
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