Middle East is sorta a region with major military power vacuum. You have absolute jokers like Saudi running around where a couple of laser CIWS sales can tip the balance of their air defense war. And then Syria, Egypt and Iraq that are all running 0 air defense builds.
Iran and Israel are the absolute god tiers of the region because they make a minimum of local equipment and have some fancy imported toys.
The much hyped Iranian intelligence service is literally just taking random Muslims who already hate the west and then organizing them to zerg rush Israel/western bases. They're also not guarding the interiors of Iran or finding US spies.
Meanwhile Israel intelligence service is basically Al qaida but instead of attacking the west, it's attacking Muslims. Showing shocked pikachu face after they find out that killing Muslim civilians did in fact NOT result in the Islamic world surrendering to their political demands, just like it didn't work the other 34 times they've tried it. Just like their Iranian brothers, they're also allergic to guarding their interior.
In such an environment, what could be a great play is inserting an adult into the room who can slowly mediate away the disputes between all partners, using their stronger intelligence/military/economic power to cow individual factions. Imho Russia is being pitted for this role in the west levant, while China is already trying to unravel some of the clownery between Saudi and Iran.
