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Tensions are high, and the situation could deteriorate rapidly."
Britain urged its citizens in Lebanon on Saturday to leave immediately, with Foreign Secretary David Lammy saying Mr Austin has ordered adjustments to US military posture designed to improve US force protection, to increase support for the defense of Israel, and to ensure the United States is prepared to respond to various contingencies.”
Do they expect that Hajj Ismail Haniyeh will be killed in Iran and Iran will remain silent?”
Laugh a bit and you will cry a lot.”
Addressing Israelis who celebrated the two killings, he said Because they have picked a fight with everyone, they don’t know where the response will come from … the response will come separately or coordinated,
he said in a speech on Thursday One of the lines of argument in Iran right now is that they need to show a firm response and show their readiness to enter into a war in order to de-escalate,
said Hamidreza Azizi, an expert on Iran and a non-resident fellow with the Middle East Council on Global Affairs think tank in Doha, Qatar That would then lead to a stronger Israeli response and then that would lead to more tit-for-tat [attacks] leading to war,
Based on what I can see, this time Iran might not actually give an exact prior warning to the US and US allies in the region [about its next attack on Israel],
The US [in April] basically made it clear to Israel that they will be there to defend them but not go on the offensive with them,
said Mortazavi, to explain why Israel did not escalate further after Iran’s missile and drone attack I think the overall strategic outlook remains the same in the sense that Hezbollah does not want to escalate this into a massive war,
said Nicholas Blanford, an expert on Hezbollah with the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington, DC Both sides have an interest in pushing a narrative,
Mortazavi told Al Jazeera It could be a staggered operation with Iran taking the lead and then followed by [attacks from] the other armed groups,
[Iran’s leaders think] that if they don’t do that, then Israel is not going to stop and after some time there might be Iranian officials being targeted openly by Israel in the country,
There is definitely a wider margin when Hezbollah wants to respond beyond the comfort zone of the past 10 months, because if Hezbollah opts to strike deep into Israeli territory then it entails a high risk of casualties,
The Department of Defense continues to take steps to mitigate the possibility of regional escalation by Iran or Iran’s partners and proxies,
In the coming hours the world will witness mind-boggling scenes and very important events. We are just waiting for the decision of our military strategists to see what course of action they recommend”.
An Iranian state TV presenter said on Friday The Department is also taking steps to increase our readiness to deploy additional land-based ballistic missile defense,
the Pentagon statement said Secretary Austin highlighted that further escalation is not inevitable and that all countries in the region would benefit from a de-escalation in tensions, including through completing a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal,
the Defense Department said in a statement about the call Additional ballistic missile defense-capable cruisers and destroyers” were ordered to the regions overseen by U.S. European Command and U.S. Central Command
Singh said in the statement However, he also stressed that the unprecedented scale of U.S. support for Israel since October 7 should leave Iran, Lebanese Hizballah, and other Iranian-backed terrorist groups with no doubt about U.S. resolve,