Israeli official says Iran war may not have been worth launching A senior Israeli official has questioned whether  Israel  would have launched its operation against  Iran  had it known the political consequences in advance amid growing public anger. "If we had known that these would be the final results of the operation in terms of political habit, it is highly doubtful that we would have embarked on this event," the official was quoted as saying on Israeli channel i24News. The terms of the deal reached between Iran and the  US  underline how Israel’s  war on Iran  has left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing pressure not only from the Islamic Republic, but from inside his own political and security establishment.