Yman

 The Iranian regime is a doomsday death cult that seeks to destroy America, Israel, and the rest of the West. It's expansionist as it seeks to take over other countries and export its revolution, and it prioritizes ideology over survival. It's pragmatic in pursuing its goals, but those goals are the fulfillment of its fanatical religious ideology. Because of that nobody in the world can afford to let Iran get any form of WMD. Iran's conclusion from the 12 day war is that it needs to invest more in protecting its nuclear program, switch from sneaking to the bomb to sprinting towards it, and created deterrence. It increased its investments in its proxies and in building up its ballistic missile arsenal with the goal of being able to overwhelm missile defenses with sheer quantity. Therefor there's a deadline of having to take action before Iran has enough missiles and launchers to overwhelm missile defenses, and according to secretary of state Rubio, that deadline was betw...