Israeli official: The Iran war brought down Washington instead of Tehran Yoaf Limor, the analyst of the Hebrew newspaper "Israel Hayom", quoted an Israeli official and wrote that the war with Iran was supposed to lead to the fall of the regime in Tehran, but in practice it had a different result. This Israeli official, who was asked this week about the results of the mid-term elections in the US, said: "The war with Iran was supposed to bring down the regime in Tehran, but instead it brought down the government in Washington."