Israel blowing up Hezbollah's pagers is a first-day-of-the-war type of exploit. Once you've revealed that capability, your enemies will start developing defenses and mitigations.
So the question is, why did Israel choose to reveal that capability now?
I recently heard that Iran is about a month away from having multiple nukes. This may be Israel's way of taking out the proxies because they expect a wider war when they bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.
I hope I'm wrong about this, but I don't think Israel let Iran get nukes because Iran is pretty much guaranteed to drop one on Israel.
Can you say Gog/Magog war?
Maybe revealing the capability is intended to deter Iran. If Iran can't develop a countermeasure quickly, then Israel could use the same tactic against Iran in coordination with a strike against their nuclear facilities.
Definitely a possibility. Israel seems to keep doing things to make Iran think twice about getting directly involved. (pager bombs, taking out a proxy leader at their leader's palace, etc.)
