The fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s government in Syria in December 2024, coupled with successive Israeli military campaigns against Iran since October 2024 and the setbacks endured by Hezbollah during the 2023–24 conflict, have fostered a prevailing sense in Tel Aviv that Iran and its ‘Axis of Resistance’ have entered a period of unprecedented vulnerability. Although Israeli leaders have seemingly persuaded Trump that Tehran’s weakness is even greate…