Iran denies involvement in the Hamas attacks and Washington insists there is no evidence of implicating Tehran but concern grows a new Palestinian-Israeli conflict will have dire consequences for Middle Eastern stability
Iranians attend a gathering in Tehran to express their solidarity with Palestine after Hamas militants launched a deadly air, land and sea assault into Israel from the Gaza Strip While Iran ghoulishly applauded the Hamas attacks, its diplomats on Sunday strenuously denied that the Islamic Republic’s extensive military machine had any involvement in the preparation or implementation of the carefully-planned onslaught that erupted across Israel’s...
Israel has repeatedly shown itself to be unafraid to strike directly – and surgically – at Iran, in particular in its efforts to hobble andBut, for now at least, a conflict between Israel and Iran seems unlikely. Israeli diplomats indicated this weekend that while Israel is clear-eyed about Tehran’s decades-long sponsorship of proxies such as Hamas in Gaza and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, a direct confrontation is not on the cards.
While that may offer some measure of assurance against an imminent and dangerous escalation, there is equally concern that the ramifications of this weekend’s events cannot be restricted to Gaza. Hopes of a deal that would lead to the normalisation of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia are now firmly on ice, at least for now.
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