Iran’s Potential to Counter US and Israeli Attacks and Its Possible Strategies

Introduction
On 22.06.2025, US President Donald Trump announced that American bombers had struck 3 Iranian nuclear facilities. Trump stated that the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities had been struck successfully, and threatened that, should Iran retaliate in any way against the US, it would face far greater force than had been witnessed that night. Trump added: “There will either be peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.” In his statement after the attack, Trump thanked Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and said that the US and Israel had worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before.

The fact that the US attack came both after the diplomatic talks between EU and Iranian representatives in Geneva and after the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation held in Istanbul can also be read as a clear message from the US–Israeli duo to Europe and the Islamic world.

The Iran–Israel War began on 13 June 2025 when elements of the Israeli Armed Forces carried out direct attacks on Iran. In the first two days of the war, Israel directly targeted Iran’s military infrastructure and nuclear facilities in very intensive attacks. In the first day’s attacks, with the support of MOSSAD agents inside Iran, precision strikes were carried out on many targets, and senior commanders and senior scientists working in the nuclear field were assassinated. When the Iranian regime proved unable to respond to the initial attacks, the international community and some strategists began publishing analyses suggesting that Iran would soon surrender or that the regime might collapse. US President Trump went even further, announcing that Iran must surrender unconditionally.