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The reason Israel and the United States agreed to a ceasefire with no agreements on nuclear matters while offering concessions to Iran is simple: the Iranians had exhausted the Israeli air defense network.
I had multiple reports to this effect in the last few days and Monday was the first time the interception rate had dropped to 50% (which I reported publicly) with the first successful Iranian strike on Israeli power infrastructure, which is a well known weakness for Israel.
This all came out after Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) asked Admiral James Kilby: “The latest round of conflict in the Middle East utilized, large amounts of munitions to defend Israel from Iranian strikes. Does the Navy currently have all the SM3s it needs for global threats?”
ADMIRAL JAMES KILBY, NAVAL OPERATIONS ACTING CHIEF: “I'll take this. We do, sir, but we are to your point, using them at an alarming rate. As you know, those are, missiles procured by the Missile Defense Agency and then delivered to the Navy for our use. And we are using them quite effectively in the defense of Israel.”
Turns out, while Israel could have continued the war offensively, its defensive capabilities were running dry — there was no way out except to settle, fast, with Iran.
