Israel Bombs The Southern Part Of Iran – Start Of Another Conflict?

Israel bombs the southern part of Iran, Syria, and Iraq. According to reports, these missiles were launched by Israel as a response to Iran.

The conflict between the two nations has moved “out of the shadows and into the light” as a result of the first-ever direct Iranian attack on Israel.

According to an analyst, Israel’s attack on Iran’s consulate in Syria may have been Netanyahu’s attempt to get the US involved in a confrontation with Tehran.

The rules of engagement that had for years kept Israel and Iran’s animosity from sparking a devastating war across the Middle East have ‘been completely upended by six months of intensifying shadow warfare that has occurred in tandem with the Gaza crisis.

Fears are now widespread throughout the region that, even if Israel and its allies are successful in deterring Iran from launching a massive, albeit well-publicized, counterattack on April 12–13 using hundreds of so-called suicide drones and ballistic missiles, such a conflict may still be inevitable.

The conflict “will get us into a never-ending cycle of reprisal that will only lead to a wider-scale confrontation,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri warned earlier this week.

Maha Yahya, director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre, a think tank with its headquarters in Beirut, stated that tensions between Iran and Israel had “taken the Middle East to the edge of the precipice with the threat of a regional war greater than ever.”

She claimed that for years, Iran had “remained muted” in response to Israel’s bombardment of its positions in Syria and Hezbollah’s in Lebanon as it strengthened its regional strategic alliances and worked to avert a full-scale regional conflict that might involve the US and other major players in the world.

However, that changed on April 1st when Israel bombed Iran’s consulate in Damascus, killing six other ranking officers and chief IRGC general Mohammad Reza Zahedi”The attack on the embassy was perceived as an attack on sovereign Iranian territory, which, if ignored, may eventually incite direct Israeli attacks against Iran,” stated Yahya.

According to Jonathan Panikoff, a former US National Intelligence Council deputy national intelligence officer for the Near East, Iran’s response to Israel’s killing of IRGC officers on diplomatic grounds “doesn’t just move the situation up the escalatory ladder – it obliterates the ladder”.

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