Iran is no pushover: Israel is learning the hard way As there is no let-up in the Iran-Israel conflict, with casualties mounting on both sides as they exchange missile attacks, many think Israel might have made a strategic miscalculation, as it is becoming apparent that it may not be able to subdue Iran on its own. “They (the Israelis) underestimated the Iranian ability to regroup after the Israelis very successfully targeted the top leadership of the Iranian ability to regroup after the Israelis very successfully targeted the top leadership of the Iranian military and managed to kill several of them,” Trita Parsi, vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told CNN. Parsi said Israel believed they had “disrupted Iranian command and control” but that idea was “quickly restructured.” What we are seeing now is that “Iranian missiles are successful in penetrating all layers of Israel’s air defense systems,” Parsi said. Parsi was speaking to CNN as new waves of Iranian missiles rained down in the early hours of Monday morning and struck multiple locations.