Following a US-led strike on Syrian targets last week — which changed little in the equation on the ground vis-à-vis the Bashar al-Assad regime, Russia and the United States — analysts continue to look through the smoke at what many say is a significantly more dangerous situation. The Israel-Iran conflict in Syria is heating up, and is already morphing from a proxy battle into a direct confrontation.
Scholars at the Washington DC-based Brookings Institution wrote on Wednesday that, following an Israeli strike on a military base in Syria last week, it is only a matter of time before the next escalation. The strike killed seven Iranians and may have destroyed a drone infrastructure project, and there are already signs retaliation is in the works.
“Iranian media gave extensive coverage to the Israeli attack on T-4 last week. Iranian leaders, most noticeably Ali Akbar Velayati, the top advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, issued direct threats of retaliation,” authors Dror Michman and Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud said.
“Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, also warned Israel that this time there would be a steep price to pay; the highly publicized funerals of Quds forces personnel was the latest such indication. Iran is now both deeply and publicly committed to retaliate. The stage is set,” the article warns ominously.
“While the intentions are clear, there remains considerable debate over what form the retaliation would take. In the Middle East, these nuances matter. […] A missile salvo appears to be the most appropriate Iranian response, both in terms of capabilities and risk calculation (and mirroring the Israeli missiles launched at T-4). However, the more crucial question is what target they will choose.”
Iran will likely try to find a delicate balance should they respond with an attack that the Russians “would find tolerable and containable,” the article asserts, but it is unclear what, if anything, would be easily contained.
Any strike on a significant Israeli military target, one likely scenario, would have to inflict negligible damage, the authors suggest. Otherwise it is hard to imagine an Israeli response would be contained.
Nathan Kwikiriza no, na your ancestors. Must you introduce insult to any argument you know you can’t win. This is typical of our fellow Christian brethen especially the so called ‘born again’ who can’t withstand a logical argument based on facts and not religious heresay.
Let the music play
The research is based on news that Israel attacked and killed Iranians and Iran may take revenge. The question is who gives permits to kill Muslims.
The Jews tried to kill jesus. He will come back as Muslim as Quran says.
There is no place for Israel in the world. One saludin is needed to end the Satan of the world the Jews.
Stupid fool I have ever seen ..and why didn’t the Nazis finish all of them? Who protected the rest? Ur parents or?
Iran has been avoiding direct confrontation with isreal, instead choosing hisbolla and hamas as a proxy, if circustances push iran to engage isreal directly, it is obvious they will be playing in to isreali hands and isreal will succeed in destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities. It is not clear if russia will provide iran with air defences as Iran’s air defense capabilitie is not tested.
Am telling you hiyo nivita kabisa
Israeli air strike and Killing Iranian advisers in Syria , It is an intentionally targetted attack to kill and destructions on Iranians .So Iran has right to retaliate Targeted Strike to Israel and kill their military Personels .Now this is the right time for Iran to retaliate Israel .
You still call the hateful, ethnocentric murderous Jewish God your true God, Grantley Charlemagne, just because the slave masters that took you from our Motherland to St Lucia told you to?
Wasiu Babatunde F-16 was brought down not F-35. Enjoy brother.
You must be a joke, imagine even an European telling you the truth. We blacks are cowards liking those that don’t give a damn about us
That’s right even the F-35 portrayed as invincible was brought down in Syria
Story. You think Iran are Hamas or the Arabs of 1967 or
1973.
Grantley Charlemagne.
Hahahaha. Organized religion, stupidity, ignorance, conspiracy theories and gullibility are like siametic twins. So your argument is based on your Bible especially the Jewish version on their doctored story. Don’t tell me that you were chosen by your imaginary Satan since the Jews were God’s chosen race. I am sure you are among the majority gullible people that believe that Genesis acct of creation as the authentic one without telling us where Cain got his wife from. Or without telling us the origin of Negro and Mongoloid races. Or believing that people lived nearly 1000years then and can’t now. Let me start running away before some proselyting disciples come after my head for Heresy. Me am afraid of an inquisition????????????????????
Grantley Charlemagne Not one Iranian? I am not argueing about war or anything but you seem to not read your bible. Here are the Iranians you think are not there:
Cyrus the great, the man who brought the jews out of babylon.
Darius the great
Xerxes who married Esther.
The Magi who gave gifts to Jesus Christ.
I can continue but reading is fundemental. please learn to read.
Are there no Christians to tell Iran that Israel is God’s Own Country. There’s nothing they can do to defeat God.
Hmmmmm, some people are funny! Fake Israel kwa? Whether fake or genuine , Israel is Israel, Jews are Jews! Let the whole Arab and Islamic world join together in this retaliatory assault plz so that Israel will have enough ground to conquer and land to annex.
Who told you those settlers under the pretext of Israelites are true genealogical descendants of Jacob AS
Iran take care of yourself you will get the pay day