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Hamas, the rulers of the Gaza Strip, carried out the deadly Oct. 7 attack against Israel that sparked the current Middle East war. Iran positions itself as a champion of Palestinian resistance ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Iran made a "big mistake" and that Israel will attack its enemies anywhere in the Middle East. [122] [123] During the attacks, the Security Cabinet of Israel convened in a bunker in Jerusalem. [99]
After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Government of Iran took a more critical stance on Israel, [37] and a proxy war emerged as Iran supported Lebanese Shia and Palestinian militants during the 1982 Lebanon War. [38] Iran began to gain power and influence with other Islamist countries and groups in the Middle East, [39] [40] collectively ...
Iran's semi-official SNN news agency said the ongoing exercise began on Jan. 4 and includes air, ground and sea forces and weapons systems, and that it is meant to test Iran's domestically made ...
The first of the recent attacks that resulted in unspecified injuries among US troops occurred on August 5, when two rockets fired by an Iran-backed militia struck al-Asad airbase in Iraq.
Scholars believe that by supporting the Palestinians, Iran seeks greater acceptance among Sunnis and Arabs, both of whom dominate the Middle East. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Ideologically, Iran seeks to replace Israel with a one-state solution (though Iran has at times also supported the two-state solution ), [ 31 ] and has predicted Israel's demise. [ 32 ]
Israel's bombardment of Hamas in Gaza could spread into a wider Middle East war involving Iran and its proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, experts say.
Middle Eastern crisis Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Palestinian internal political violence, the Israel–Lebanon conflict, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the spillover of the Israel–Hamas war Clockwise from top: Fires in the Gaza envelope following the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, damage from the Israeli bombing of the Gaza ...