{"id":2836,"date":"2026-06-24T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:43:10","slug":"us-iran-deal-may-leave-netanyahu-as-biggest-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran deal may leave Netanyahu as biggest casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>BEIRUT, June 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The biggest casualty of the U.S.-Iran deal may not be Israel&#8217;s Iran strategy, but the political brand Benjamin Netanyahu spent decades constructing as the Israeli leader who could uniquely bend Washington to his will on Iran, analysts, former U.S. officials and diplomats say.<\/div>\n<div>Netanyahu built his political \u200bidentity on an audacious assertion: that he alone could keep the U.S. and Israel in strategic lockstep on Iran. Cultivating Republican support, he cast himself as the only Israeli leader capable of influencing successive U.S. presidents \u200cand insisted that only sustained military pressure could contain Tehran.<\/div>\n<div>At the height of his power, he was described by diplomats as the &#8220;American whisperer&#8221; \u2014 the Israeli leader who could pick up the phone and ensure Washington\u2019s strategic calculus aligned with that of Israel. No other Israeli prime minister, they note, addressed Congress as often or built such enduring political capital across the American political system.<\/div>\n<div>But analysts say Washington and Tehran&#8217;s interim pact to end the war that the U.S. and Israel launched in February shows how that narrative has been reversed. Rather than shaping Washington\u2019s Iran policy, Netanyahu is now forced to accept \u200bit, as U.S. President Donald Trump pursues a settlement that increasingly treats Israeli objections as constraints.<\/div>\n<div>At home, the reckoning is equally stark, said former U.S. official Dennis Ross. Netanyahu is increasingly boxed in between a U.S. president intent on \u200bending the conflict and a domestic base resistant to concessions, particularly in Lebanon, he said. Withdrawal risks political backlash while escalation risks confrontation with Washington.<\/div>\n<div>The war Netanyahu hoped would cement his legacy \u2060as the leader who confronted Iran may instead be remembered as the conflict that dismantled a central source of his power. Isolated abroad, constrained by his closest ally and vulnerable ahead of an autumn election, he now finds the political asset on which he \u200bbuilt his career has become his greatest liability.<\/div>\n<div>At the outset of the war with Iran, Netanyahu promised ultimate victory. He delivered neither the collapse of Iran\u2019s ruling system, nor the defeat of Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah, nor safe return for residents of northern Israel.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe U.S.-Iran deal \u200bis a decisive blow to Netanyahu,\u201d said Aviv Bushinsky, a former Netanyahu adviser. \u201cNot only did he lose the war with Iran, he has also lost Trump as a friend. He is now isolated not only internationally, but locked in a major dispute with Trump,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div>Netanyahu&#8217;s office did not respond to a request for comment. In a press conference this month, the Israeli premier described his relationship with Trump as one between partners who &#8220;agree many times and sometimes disagree&#8221;. There had been a systematic campaign to diminish Israel&#8217;s &#8220;huge achievements&#8221; against Iran and its proxies, he said.<\/div>\n<div>A White House official \u200bsaid Trump and Netanyahu had a strong relationship and that Israel&#8217;s military forces had been &#8220;incredible partners&#8221; in a war that had &#8220;decimated the Iranian regime&#8217;s military capabilities&#8221;.<\/div>\n<h2>PUBLIC REBUKES<\/h2>\n<div>The disagreement between the U.S. and Israeli leaders, analysts say, extends beyond personal ties to a growing \u200bdivergence in goals: Trump seeks to disengage from another Middle East war, while Netanyahu views continued pressure on Iran and its ally Hezbollah as essential to Israel\u2019s security.<\/div>\n<div>Washington has negotiated directly with Tehran, folded Lebanon\u2019s conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah into a broader framework, and created \u200cmechanisms to manage \u2060ceasefire disputes \u2014 moves that, according to three regional diplomatic sources, have increasingly sidelined Israel from key decisions.<\/div>\n<div>The country that once viewed Netanyahu as an indispensable interlocutor is now, the regional sources say, treating him as an obstacle to an agreement it is determined to protect.<\/div>\n<div>Trump has publicly rebuked Israel\u2019s military conduct in Lebanon, while Vice President JD Vance has underscored the conditional nature of the relationship, warning Israeli critics of the deal against \u201cattacking the only powerful ally they have left in the world.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Two Israeli officials familiar with Netanyahu\u2019s thinking said he was not concerned that public remarks by Trump and Vance would translate into meaningful shifts in U.S. policy toward Israel, such as delays in arms deliveries, even if Israel continues military operations in Lebanon.<\/div>\n<div>Trump has signalled that he is prepared to override Israeli priorities \u200bin pursuit of U.S. interests. In a TV interview this month, \u200bhe said that if he tells Netanyahu \u201cto do something, \u2060he does it&#8221;.<\/div>\n<h2>LOSS OF REPUBLICAN SAFETY NET<\/h2>\n<div>Iran will seek to widen the emerging gap between the U.S. and Israel by portraying any Israeli military action in Lebanon as an attempt to sabotage Trump\u2019s diplomacy, forcing the White House to choose between backing its ally or preserving the deal, said Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group.<\/div>\n<div>What makes Netanyahu\u2019s position so precarious, U.S. analysts say, is the \u200bloss of his safety net.<\/div>\n<div>For years, he cultivated Republican backing, using it as a counterweight to offset tensions with Democratic administrations, and openly denouncing former President Barack Obama\u2019s 2015 Iran \u200bnuclear deal from a congressional podium. But \u2060Republicans will not break with Trump for Netanyahu, they said.<\/div>\n<div>Against this backdrop, the implications of the U.S.-Iran deal also extend to Netanyahu\u2019s core strategic bets. He staked his political future on two objectives: weakening, if not toppling, Iran\u2019s theocratic leadership and securing normalised relations with Saudi Arabia by expanding the Abraham Accords.<\/div>\n<div>Neither has materialised. Iranian leaders have emerged<\/div>\n<div>from the conflict entrenched, while the Saudi handshake remains out of reach.<\/div>\n<div>Across the region, a recalibration is already visible. Countries Netanyahu once hoped to draw closer \u2014 with Saudi Arabia as the crown jewel \u2014 are now hedging, slowing \u2060normalisation with Israel while \u200bcautiously reopening channels with Tehran.<\/div>\n<div>According to Gulf sources, the logic that underpinned the Abraham Accords has been eroded by the Gaza war, the unresolved question of West \u200bBank annexation, and a growing perception that Netanyahu\u2019s Israel may be more of a liability than an asset in any emerging regional order.<\/div>\n<div>An Iranian official said Netanyahu\u2019s push to expand the Abraham Accords has been blunted, with several countries now seeking a place in an emerging Iran-aligned framework.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This is not just a victory for \u200bIran. It&#8217;s a failure for Netanyahu,&#8221; the official said. 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