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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Iran has established a network of allies and proxy forces across the Middle East, which it describes as part of an "axis of resistance" aimed at opposing US and Israeli interests in the area. Israel views Iran as an existential threat on account of Tehran's rhetoric, its support for proxy forces in the region, and its arming and financing of ...
Pezeshkian said that the West's silence about “unprecedented inhumane crime” in Gaza and Israeli attacks elsewhere in the Middle East was “irresponsible” and encouraged Israel to put ...
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. ... traditional enemies of Iran, are united ...
The Iran–Iraq War began on 22 September 1980, when Iraq under Saddam Hussein invaded Iran, and it ended on 20 August 1988, when Iran accepted the UN-brokered ceasefire. Iraq wanted to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state, and was worried the 1979 Iranian Revolution would lead Iraq's Shi'ite majority to rebel against the Ba'athist ...