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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 such ...
Iran and Saudi Arabia have waged a proxy war in Libya, with Saudi Arabia, [483] along with the U.A.E, [484] Egypt, and Sudan, have provided support to the Libyan National Army, and its leader warlord Khalifa Haftar. Iran, Qatar, and Turkey support the Government of National Accord and other Islamist forces in the country.
Iran was the second Muslim-majority country to recognize Israel as a sovereign state after Turkey. [1] After the 1953 coup d'état, which reinstalled the pro-Western leader Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the Shah of Iran, [2] relations between the two countries significantly improved. [1]
Middle Eastern nations are bracing for the potential widening of the Israel-Hamas war amid threats by Iran to avenge the killing of Hamas’ political leader in Tehran last week. Iran’s Supreme ...
2024 Iran–Israel conflict. In 2024, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict escalated to a brief period of direct confrontation between the two countries. On 1 April, Israel bombed an Iranian consulate complex in Damascus, Syria, killing multiple senior Iranian officials. [ 32] In response, Iran and its proxies seized the Israeli-linked ship MSC ...
Iran crisis of 1946: 1945–1946 Azerbaijan People's Republic Republic of Mahabad. Supported by: Soviet Union. Imperial State of Iran. Supported by: United States. Iranian victory Greek Civil War: 1946–1949 [27] [28] Greek communists (Democratic Army of Greece, National Liberation Front, Greek People's Liberation Army, Communist Party of ...
t. e. In political science, a proxy war is an armed conflict fought between two belligerents, wherein one belligerent is a non-state actor supported by an external third-party power. In the term proxy war, the non-state actor is the proxy, yet both belligerents in a proxy war can be considered proxies if both are receiving foreign military aid ...
On 13 April 2024, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, in collaboration with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, [ 3] Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and the Ansar Allah (Houthis), launched retaliatory attacks against Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights [ note 2] with loitering munitions ...