ABC | Eric Tlozek | 27 October 2024
Please God stop Israel – Mark
This round of fighting between Israel and Iran might be over, but the rules have changed and things are increasingly dangerous.
“One thing is clear: Israel and Iran came closer than ever last night to the brink of direct war,” wrote Danny Citrinowicz, a researcher at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies.
Considering they have traded ballistic missile fire over the past month, the tone of agreement between Israel and Iran now might seem rather strange, but is for temporary, tactical reasons.
Both have signalled a mutual interest in stopping further escalation, but prevailing conditions could mean that more fighting is likely, if not inevitable.
Israel had been planning a response to a ballistic-missile barrage carried out by Iran on October 1, Tehran’s second direct attack on Israel in six months.
Before Israel launched its strikes – purportedly on missile manufacturing and launch sites in three provinces — Iran had been implying that it would consider anything less than an attack on its oil or nuclear facilities not to be worthy of retaliation.
It gave the Islamic Republic a path to save face and avoid further attacks, and one it appears to be taking for now.
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