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The Iran–Israel proxy conflict, also known as the Iran–Israel proxy war[24] or Iran–Israel Cold War, [25] is an ongoing proxy conflict between Iran and Israel. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups ...
Syrian Civil War. Syria has been a major theater in the proxy conflict throughout its ongoing civil war, which began in 2011. Iran and the GCC states have provided varying degrees of military and financial support to opposing sides, with Iran backing the government and Saudi Arabia supporting rebel militants.
On 11 October 2011, the U.S. Attorney General and the Director of the FBI announced two individuals have been charged in federal court for their participation in a plot allegedly directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States with explosives while the Ambassador was in the United States.
The 2011 Bahraini uprising was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the Shia -dominant and some Sunni minority Bahraini opposition from 2011 until 2014. The protests were inspired by the unrest of the 2011 Arab Spring and protests in Tunisia and Egypt and escalated to daily clashes after the Bahraini government repressed the ...
Iran supports Hamas, Hezbollah and other opponents of Israel but hasn’t shown visible signs that it wants to see the Israel-Hamas war expand into a regional confrontation that could draw in the ...
Beginning in the mid-2000s, the military and diplomatic corps of the Russian Federation has had various contacts and relations with entities on both sides of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict. This is a component of Russia's broader foreign policy across the entire Middle East region. Israel–Russia relations.
Right: An IDF fighter jet departs from a military base in Israel to attack Iran during the October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran. In 2024, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict escalated to a series of direct confrontations between the two countries. On 1 April, Israel bombed an Iranian consulate complex in Damascus, Syria, killing multiple senior ...
Israel's attacks on Lebanon, Yemen, the West Bank and Gaza are aimed at Tehran, but the real target is the Axis of Resistance, and diplomatic initiatives must be pursued to draw these groups away ...