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In an interview, a senior Israeli security analyst said that Iran is attempting to avoid war and conflict with the US and Israel. 

“Stability serves [Iran] well, because even when there is no immediate existential threat, instability makes the regime feel challenged,” Danny Citrinowicz, a fellow in the Iran Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and a former head of the Iran desk in the IDF Intelligence Directorate, told yNet

He continued, “The first objective is to restore order, and to do that, it does not want to find itself in an external confrontation, neither with the United States nor with Israel. The last thing Iran needs right now is to attack Israel or the United States.” INSS is a top security think tank in Israel. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the US last week and urged President Donald Trump to restart the war against Iran. After the meeting, the President threatened to attack the Islamic Republic if it continued to rebuild its missile and nuclear programs. 

In June, Israel launched an unprovoked war on Iran that killed thousands and destroyed the country’s civilian nuclear program. The US joined Israel’s war and bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities.