Yet what of Israel, the arch enemy of Iran that has led two wars against the Islamic Republic in the past year? “The Iranian nuclear project that was discovered in 2003 was always two years away from crossing the finish line. "But it was two years away for 20 years because Israel was able to postpone this, going back to Stuxnet [a cyber attack on Iranian nuclear facilities] in 2011 to the assassination of [top Iranian nuclear scientist] Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in 2020. Whatever the toll of war, the regime has made it clear it will never give up the nuclear programme. If and when Israel does re-enter war against Iran, destroying the ballistic missile capabilities of the regime will be the highest priority.