Face-to-face military confrontation on each other’s soil has now been normalisedFor years, Israel and Iran have waged a “shadow war”, attacking each other indirectly using proxy forces, assassinations, informants, spies and hybrid, non-military covert means. Now this undeclared, largely silent war is undisguisedly out in the open. It’s become a shooting war, it’s noisy, it’s escalating, and there’s no end in sight.This is not to say Israel’s large-scale, three-wave air assault on Tehran and other targets inside Iran early on Saturday morning means the two enemies are now engaged in all-out conflict. This is not yet the full-scale, region-wide conflagration so many in the Middle East fear. That may be coming, but it’s still in the future. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/26/iran-israel-shadow-war-out-in-open
Author : Simon Tisdall
Publish date : 2024-10-26 16:38:32
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Iran-Israel’s shadow war is out in the open and will only escalate unless causes addressed
