📰 5 sources 5 articles · 25 Oct 2026, 09:02 → 18 days ago

Retired Israeli general warns a new attack on Iran will not topple the regime

Media reports covered warnings by retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick that a new Israeli attack on Iran would neither topple the regime nor resolve the nuclear and missile files. In an article in Maariv, Brick described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statements about settling the confrontation "once and for all" as a dangerous illusion, warning of an Iranian response targeting Gulf energy facilities and disrupting navigation in Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab. Maariv also warned that a new war would drag Israel into a long attrition and a heavy security and economic cost.

📍 Where things stand: Israeli warnings about the cost of a new strike on Iran are continuing across various media outlets, with no official Israeli or Iranian responses to these assessments reported in the articles.

⏱️ Timeline

25 Oct 2026, 09:02 Retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick warned that a new attack on Iran would neither topple the regime nor settle the nuclear and missile files, describing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statements about settling the confrontation "once and for all" as a dangerous illusion. He said Iran would respond by striking Gulf energy facilities, disrupting navigation in Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab and targeting facilities inside Israel, which could push Tel Aviv into a long war of attrition draining its air defenses, economy and standing.
25 Oct 2026, 09:23 The Hebrew-language Maariv newspaper said Netanyahu's statements that eliminating the regime in Iran is the only way to achieve a complete victory, and his directives to the army to defeat Iran definitively, are a dangerous illusion detached from strategic reality, warning that a new Israeli attack would not topple the regime but would push Israel into a war of attrition and regional destruction and harm its security, economy and international standing.
25 Oct 2026, 09:53 Retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick said resuming the war on Iran could expand the confrontation regionally, inflict military and economic losses on Israel and drag it into a long attrition, amid the absence of a clear strategy to end the war.
26 Oct 2026, 05:29 A report citing Yitzhak Brick's article in Maariv said Iran and its allies would respond with missiles and drones against strategic infrastructure, and that closing the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab could cause global economic chaos, along with the draining of Israeli defenses, diplomatic isolation and economic erosion, describing the cost of a new strike as potentially catastrophic.

Timeline written by AI from the sources below; updated as new reports arrive.

How the sources covered it

Watan News Agency focused on the details of the military scenario of an Iranian response, while Masdar News Network concentrated on what Maariv reported about Netanyahu's directives to the army, and Arabi21 highlighted global economic consequences, whereas Al-Najah and Sada El-Balad presented the warning briefly with a focus on the political dimension.

وكالة وطن للأنباء It led with Brick's detailed scenario of an Iranian response against Gulf energy facilities, navigation in Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab and facilities inside Israel, and described Netanyahu's statements as a "dangerous illusion".
شبكة مصدر الاخبارية It built its report on what Maariv carried, highlighting Netanyahu's statements and his directives to the Israeli army to defeat Iran definitively, describing them as detached from strategic reality.
النجاح الإخباري It presented the warning in a brief summary focused on the possible regional expansion of the confrontation and the absence of a clear strategy to end the war.
صدى البلد It headlined the report with "an Israeli general warns" and highlighted that betting on toppling the Iranian regime through military pressure is a "political illusion" leading Israel to a strategic catastrophe.
عربي21 It attributed the warning to an article in Maariv, devoting space to economic consequences such as global economic chaos, diplomatic isolation and economic erosion, describing the cost as catastrophic.