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Using his company WhatsApp, Israeli intelligence installed spyware on Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh phone via a WhatsApp message."
My sense is Pezeshkian will not have an impact on the decision,
said Suzanne Maloney, the vice president and director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution and a longtime Iran expert This attack was a huge slap in the face for Iran's status in the region,
Ali Akbar Behmanesh, a prominent politician and a leader of Pezeshkian's campaign, said in an interview A regional escalation against a key US ally will shut the already extremely narrow window there might have been for diplomatic engagement,
I have not seen a decision by Iran to move" in a way that signals Iran was definitely developing a weapon
Sullivan told reporters at the same event We will make the occupying terrorist regime regret its action,
The attack injects a major crisis for Iran's new president on his first day on the job,
Ali Vaez, the head of the Iran project at the International Crisis Group, said Wednesday Instead of being at least a year away from having breakout capacity to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon, they're probably one or two weeks away from doing that,
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said July 19 at the Aspen Security Forum This heinous assassination adds to the long list of the bloody history of the heinous operations carried out by the Zionist occupation before and after the occupation of Palestine against many figures who defended the Palestinian right,
The outcome of the response from Hezbollah, Iran, and the broader Axis of Resistance is critical,
Hezbollah is likely to retaliate and is looking for a type of operation that will be proportional to the attack on Beirut in the sense that it will be a military target of great significance to Israel, perhaps Israel's military headquarters in Tel Aviv,
We should keep in mind that the Israelis are trying to drag the U.S. into a direct war with Iran,
I think Iran and other members of the Axis of Resistance can attack the biggest city of Israel, Tel Aviv, and even Haifa,
This gap has existed during the past years with the assassination of Iran's nuclear scientists and the sabotage of Iran's military and nuclear facilities by Israel,
If we track Iran's previous responses, ... I'd argue that they would opt for a response that has the loudest political message, with the least physical damage."
On the one hand, Iran must give a deterrent answer to Israel,
For Iran, ... the strategic dilemma is how to restore its deterrence without risking an all-out war."
Based on recent attacks in Iraq and Syria, U.S. Central Command assessed that the OWAUAS posed a threat to U.S. and Coalition Forces,
the U.S. defense official said Should Iran attempt to coordinate an integrated attack by multiple proxies, ... then it's likely the full-scale war threshold will have been met not only between Israel and those proxies but also between Israel and Iran."
I don't believe Iran will follow along with an all-out war against Israel and Israel won't follow a full-blow war against Iran alone,