“The heinous regime will be punished by the hands of our courageous men,” The Iranian supreme leader vowed revenge for the deadly Israeli airstrikes on Iran's consulate in Syria.
If there was any doubt, Iran and Israel have now left the proxy stage behind & are entering direct conflict.
Iran is pressed to respond directly, not through its preferred method of proxies, because Israel raised the stakes by openly attacking its sovereign diplomatic territory using F35s. Iran's credibility & regional deterrence is now at stake. So Iran will respond using its own forces & possibly in sovereign Israeli territory.
The only question now is how Iranian leadership would define a “proportionate” response, and how far will they go. They obviously don't want war, and made their proxies stop attacking US troops over the past 6 weeks. But US carte blanche to Israel and this latest attack mean that all bets are off.
The Biden administration & its contradictory policies have utterly failed in the Middle East, but now the world must uncomfortably depend on Biden to rein in Israel, push for deescalation, and prevent world war 3. God help us all!
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