What's the point of Israel's psychological warfare against Iran?

[bemildred]

Full disclosure: Maj.-Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, hasn’t spoken to me recently. Actually, he has never spoken to me at all. Nor has Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, or any other defense establishment officials in Tehran.

I also admit that I’m quite envious of my military reporter colleagues and defense analysts who get to go to lots of briefings by defense officials and political decision-makers, which include details about the necessity of an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear installations, its timing (more or less), and even exactly how many kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium Iran has.

Still, I can only imagine Jafari or Vahidi, who receive an Israeli press summary each morning, slapping their foreheads with their hands and yelling; “Inconceivable!” Just like that clever Sicilian, Vizzini, in the movie “The Princess Bride,” who yells that over and over, Jafari surely spits out that word every morning anew.

“It just can’t be that the Israelis are knowingly compromising themselves, giving us critical information about the timing of their attack and are even disclosing some details about what they know (and also about what they don’t) about our nuclear program,” he must be saying to himself.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/east-side-story/what-s-the-point-of-israel-s-psychological-warfare-against-iran.premium-1.458444

Edit: Oberliner, I accessed the OP through Google News and got the whole thing.

[azurnoir]

1. Perhaps they're hoping for the 'chicken little' response all around? n/t

[bemildred]

2. Intermittent reinforcement is better than nothing or everything.

It makes you most persistent that way.

I think they are counting cookies or something. Anyway, I get one free from google, it seems, but not two, even if I delete my cookies, turn off Javascript, etc. And it's a bit of free advertising when someone links your site.

[oberliner]

3. I can't seem to get to the article

I've tried to go through Google News but I still run into the premium block on the Ha'aretz side.

[bemildred]

4. I have a very non-standard setup: linux/firefox/script & ad blockers, cookies get dumped when I exit

and so on, that may have something to do with it. It's like they don't know who I am at first. Transaction processing on the web is strange if you are used to synchronous computing environments. Anyway, I'm not doing anything specific to get them to come up, I don't care enough to spend any time on it, they just do come up sometimes. I figure if I can get four paras to post of something interesting, that's good enough.

[azurnoir]

5. can't explain it- that means both BTW

Israel's posturing over Iran neither could the author of the OP or why I am getting Ha'aretz unblocked so far because I surely have not gotten a paid subscription