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The assistance provided by Iran's IRGC Quds Force under General Qasem Soleimani, Hezbollah, and Russia to the Syrian government enabled Bashar al-Assad to emerge victorious from the war in 2017, which ensured that the "worst-case scenario" for Israel, a contiguous "Axis of Resistance" stretching from Iran and Iraq through Syria to the Lebanese ...
The Gaza War, also known as the First Gaza War, [29] [30] [31] Operation Cast Lead (Hebrew: מִבְצָע עוֹפֶרֶת יְצוּקָה), [32] or the Gaza Massacre (Arabic: مجزرة غزة), [33] [34] [35] and referred to as the Battle of al-Furqan (معركة الفرقان) by Hamas, [36] [37] was a three-week armed conflict between ...
Iran and Israel have been engaged in a covert conflict for years. [21] Iran has utilized the "Axis of Resistance", a network of Iranian-backed militant groups, to target Israeli interests, [21] [22] [23] while Israel has reportedly carried out assassinations of high-ranking Iranian officials and nuclear scientists and launched cyberattacks against Iran.
Israel’s attack on Iran deepens the war in the Middle East. Avoiding, or risking, an even worse escalation is at the heart of decisions being taken by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali ...
Khamenei may be a zealot, but he also isn’t stupid; he recognizes that Israel holds escalation dominance and that a direct war with Israel — which could possibly draw in the United States ...
That will depends on how hard Israel hits Iran. "If Israel really shuts down the Iranian oil economy, then Iran has no reason to tolerate the rest of the world using the Strait of Hormuz," O ...
[10] But this was challenged by another source which stated that satellite pictures of the demonstration showed it having "far, far fewer people there than at recent opposition rallies, which numbered in the millions," and that instead of congregating in Azadi Square in Tehran, where the regime had "traditionally organized mass rallies to ...
Iran has foes other than Israel in the area, Saudi Arabia foremost among them. But the desire to rid the region of the world’s only Jewish state is less a policy goal for Tehran than an ...