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Significance of China-Brokered Iran-Saudi Agreement – Trita Parsi

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The US Supporting Israel in a Potential War or Conflict With Iran

The Biden calculation may very well be that precisely because of these factors that you mentioned, the US is overstretched, it's deeply involved in Ukraine. As a result, they want to send a signal to the Iranians do not think for a second that we cannot take military action against you as a way of deterring the Iranians. But even if that is the intent, it does not mean that it may not be a massive miscalculation. At the end of the day, outstourcing this decision to the Israelis and the manner that Ambassador Niz has done with his comments is actually taking the decision out of American hands and putting it in Israeli hands. So this is a rather surprising event

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