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Israeli fighter jets brought panic to Beirut this Tuesday (6), when at least four planes broke the sound barrier over the Lebanese capital three times. Residents sought shelter, but no damage was reported.
The intimidation, and an unusual maneuver in broad daylight across the city, came shortly before the leader of the fundamentalist group Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, was to deliver a speech on the crisis that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East. .
The group launched drones against northern Israel this morning, and warned that they were just an appetizer for the big attack they plan to carry out in collaboration with their patrons in Iran.
Supporters of Hamas in Israel’s war against the Palestinian terrorist group, Hezbollah and Tehran are seeking revenge for murders that took place last week. The Jewish State, in an airstrike against southern Beirut last week, killed the Lebanese group’s main operational commander.
A few hours later, an attack in Tehran that Israel has not denied killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. The actions were met with a promise of a massive attack to punish Tel Aviv, and allies are scrambling side by side to try to dissuade rivals from igniting the fusion of a wide regional war.
It is not clear which fighters were employed by Israel, but due to their range it is likely that they were powerful F-15 models. The Jewish State also operates F-16s and the more modern F-35, with radar stealth characteristics.
Israel and Hezbollah have not faced each other in open war since 2006, when the conflict ended in a draw. Now, Tel Aviv wants the group to withdraw from a large concentration in southern Lebanon, as envisaged by a UN resolution, to protect northern Israeli communities from attacks.
Iran has only attacked Israel once, in April this year, when most of its missiles and drones were shot down in an action coordinated by the Jewish State, the US, allies such as the UK and France, as well with Arab countries such as the Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
At that time, Tehran wanted to take revenge for an Israeli attack on its consulate in Damascus. Israel’s retaliation was measured and the crisis subsided, only to explode again now. The context is, of course, the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip since Hamas attacked Israel last October 7.
The United States is afraid that the attack of Iran and Hezbollah will come quickly, but Tehran called a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to discuss the issue this Wednesday (7).
In Iraq, two American soldiers were injured in a rocket attack by pro-Iranian groups in the Arab country, a reminder of the regional consequences of the crisis. In the Red Sea, Houthi rebels funded by the ayatollahs are campaigning against Western and Israeli ships.
Russia, according to reports collected by the Reuters agency, asked its allies in Iran to measure the response and avoid the death of civilians in its attack, trying to give it a specific tone. But there is a great risk of losing control of the situation.
The hardliners of Israel want to take advantage of a possible attack to destroy the Iranian nuclear program, which they see as an existential threat, although the Jewish State has about 90 atomic bombs at its disposal. The challenge today for Tehran is to show domestic strength while avoiding possible military suicide.
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