Syed Ata Hasnain | Halting 'Rising Lion': The Limits of US Involvement

When "Operation Rising Lion" — Israel's ambitious operation against Iran — was launched, it appeared to many observers that history might repeat itself. Just as the United States decimated the war machine of Iraq's Saddam Hussein's in 2003, there was talk of US-Israel synergy towards dismantling the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran. The IRGC is the keeper of Iran's revolutionary ideology and the sponsor of its strategic operations. It would mean erasing the arch-enemy of both countries in one powerful joint stroke. After all, Israel had already achieved significant battlefield dominance against the proxies — first Hamas in…