{"id":144174,"date":"2026-03-26T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144174"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:30:38","slug":"ft-israeli-military-doubts-war-will-topple-iranian-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144174","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Israeli military doubts war will topple Iranian regime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Israeli military is increasingly sceptical that regime change in Iran will be possible in the coming weeks, casting doubt on one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s core war aims as the Islamic republic shows its ability to endure intense bombardment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two people familiar with the matter said the prevailing view within military intelligence was that the war had not created the conditions for ousting the Islamic regime in the near future. One of them, who is familiar with briefings from the Israel Defense Forces\u2019 intelligence directorate Aman, said it appeared that the aerial campaign had yet to measurably erode the Iranian regime\u2019s hold on power since the US and Israel launched the war on February 28. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the evolving thinking within the IDF, rather than an official assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7cdf6546-a4a0-4999-95dd-292235ee738d?syn-25a6b1a6=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Israeli military doubts war will topple Iranian regime <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hphrOjqqGv\">https:\/\/t.co\/hphrOjqqGv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Financial Times (@FT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FT\/status\/2037278045371777396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli military is increasingly sceptical that regime change in Iran will be possible in the coming weeks, casting doubt on one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s core war aims as the Islamic republic shows its ability to endure intense<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144174\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,119,564,565,203,106,616,151,665],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-globalization","category-iran","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-military-armed-forces","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144178,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144174\/revisions\/144178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}