📰 “The message to the US is forceful: Iran is ready to at

📰 “The message to the US is forceful: Iran is ready to attack Israel with ballistic missiles and defy the West, including a direct warning to Biden.

They could do the same against any US ally in the Gulf region. Iran does not want a war, but it is capable of responding.

So, if it does not want a war, the message to the US is that it has to restrain its adolescent child, Israel, the child that has been pampered for so long, it thinks it can do to the region whatever it wants.

Israel has now led its backers into a hell hole in which there is not even a prospect of peace, no defeat of Hamas, no prospect of a post-war government, dwindling deterrence to other armed groups in the region, and the prospect of a low-level regional war on all of Israel’s frontiers simultaneously”

✍️ Opinion by David Hearst