Israeli/US friendly Iran in a new Middle East?

Looks like Plan B—regime change—is now in motion for Iran. Two scenarios may follow, all alarming, and none fit the Wonderland of the Western World. How do we crawl back from this dark rabbit hole?

Netanyahu gestures to a red line he marked on a cartoon-style bomb diagram symbolizing Iran’s nuclear program during his address to the 67th UN General Assembly on September 27, 2012. Src: Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

This has been Netanyahu’s lifelong dream. “I waited for this moment for 40 years,” he said in a recent public address. He did not even shy away from identifying his secondary goal: regime change in Iran.

Militarily speaking, attacking Iran’s nuclear sites will not dismantle its nuclear program. Iran still has the scientists, the know-how, the infrastructure, and a stockpile of enriched uranium sufficient to produce weapons. The main centrifuges are buried deep underground, at Natanz and Fordow, beyond the reach of Israeli missiles without direct American support. Only the US possesses the bunker-busting capacity to strike those facilities effectively.

In the meantime, Israel appears to be deploying its “decapitation” strategy, used before on Hezbollah—targeting the top brass. It …