There isn't even any intelligent discussion allowed on "mainstream" television or radio.
The most real, unfitered news does not even appear in "mainstream" search engines.
Yes, they detonated. Yes, they are realists, even though they have religious objections to nuclear warfare.
Yes, they are capable of sending Israel back to the stone age, and Yes, they are allied with Russia and China, among lesser powers.
None of this had to happen. Trump and his appointed swamp creatures are regime-change advocates. They lied about the nature of and reasons for the JCPOA, constantly, on the "mainstream" meda outlets. They had most of their supporters, who don't want to learn about these matters, repeating their lies. There was no legal or sound strategic reason for Trump to remove the U.S. from the JCPOA. Since then, Iran has known it has no choice and must develop nuclear weapons of its own. And still, their leadership was open even until just last week (Pezeshkian's overtures) to a resurrection of diplomacy. But the current leadership of Israel does not want diplomacy. It wants escalation and the war to end all wars in the Middle East, which it expects to "win" with American muscle.
All of this is entirely by choice. It is not defensive. They want Trump to win, because they expect him to vigorously make war for Greater Israel.