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Any action by the Islamic Republic, against Israel or US interests could spark the full-scale Middle East war the White House dreads. Even if Iran doesn’t hit back, lower-grade clashes are ...
Former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta said the war in the Middle East is at a crucial point now and future actions will signal whether there will be an imminent “full scale ...
The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt , Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east, [ 1 ] and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south.
In the event of war, full-scale war, both sides will be able to inflict significant pain on the other. An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a 155mm shells across the Israeli-Lebanese border ...
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the operations "must not constitute the premises of a war extension from Gaza, including full-scale destruction." [106] On 3 September, Israeli media reported that the IDF had classified the West Bank as a "combat zone" and now viewed it as the second most important front in the war.
A full-scale war could force hundreds of thousands of Israelis to flee, paralyze the Israeli economy and force the army, which is still engaged in Gaza, to fight on two fronts.
Iran began to gain power and influence with other Islamist countries and groups in the Middle East, [40] [41] collectively named the "Axis of Resistance". [42] The conflict evolved with Israeli attempts to stop the Iranian nuclear program and confrontations during the Syrian civil war. [43] [44]
A Hezbollah official told Reuters the retaliation was calibrated to avoid triggering a full-scale war. ... The Pentagon has built a robust force in the Middle East over the last several weeks as ...