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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/world/europe/iran-us-israel-goals.html

Israel and the U.S. Are Starting to Show Their Different Priorities in Iran
The United States views Iran through a prism of global responsibilities and strategic goals. Israel has a more regional approach. After nearly three weeks of war, their paths are diverging.
By Steven Erlanger
March 20, 2026 Updated 9:27 a.m. ET

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Israel has its own natural gas, little dependency on the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has a chokehold on the transport of fuel, and no responsibility for the free flow of global trade.

Washington is focused much more now on the problem of the Strait of Hormuz, she said, since a lengthy closure could mean a sustained global recession and higher fuel prices.

“Israel doesn’t care as much about this,” she said. “They have a set of strategic objectives and believe they are succeeding, and they’re not as price sensitive as the White House. They are more willing to weather the storm and try to finish the job.”

It sees an extraordinary opportunity to clobber Iran with American help, and it is likely to want to continue the war longer than President Trump, these analysts said.

So the attack on Iran’s South Pars facility, from which Iran gets most of its natural gas for domestic consumption, was a logical move for Israel, as was an earlier bombing attack on Iranian fuel depots, which Washington also criticized privately, analysts and officials say.

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From NYT comments:

Rob S
San Francisco · 29m ago
It's time to tell Netanyahu stop, and to finish what he started on his own. We don't need another Iraq. The American Taxpayers, and soldiers, cannot take another quagmire just to benefit Bibi.

Sid Ghosh
Toronto · 11m ago
The biggest threat to America isn't Russia, which can barely manage to hold Ukraine's east. It isn't China, which seeks trade more than war. It's Israel. Israel is going to continue dragging America into pointless wars to grab land in the Middle East and America ALSO has to pay for it through money and lives. Never in history before has a tiny country controlled the superpower of its time like this.

Ron Coleman
Detroit · 12m ago
And let’s not forget that in addition to all the dead, the fractured alliances, the strait closure and the resulting economic crisis, Trump also handed the world and the oppressed people of Iran another ayatollah 30 years younger (!) and bent on revenge. Some art of the deal.

Abe
Detroit · 1h ago
If the goal is peace and stability, the United States needs to extricate itself from the state of Israel’s constant agitation for war. If the United States decides to use its immense leverage on Israel, then the region could stabilize and security could be found for Israel and the entire region.
Israel, instead, sees a chance to create an oasis in the Middle East in a sea of decimated, failed states…that’s their vision of the future.
It’s hard to imagine a word where Witkoff and Kushner deviate from this vision.