Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and other Related Conflicts in the Middle East (read the rules in the first post)

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enroger

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Bellum_Romanum said:
So Iran doing nothing= emboldens it's enemies from pushing its bottom line and also weakening the current regime internally from the persistent and lingering enemies (Shah remnants and others). Iran doing something = invites an increased attack not just from its omnipotent enemy within the region but also from the superpower America.

What is Iran to do? Stay impotent? Collapse the leadership and become just another Arab state under the leadership of the west?
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That's why I'm saying they walk a fine line. They have to demonstrate an effective retaliation, but not large enough to trigger US involvement.

But I think it may be moot because Israel seems to be actively trying for more escalation, even if Iran did control their response Israeli will try to one up them in the next round until they bring uncle sam into the fray.

SinoSoldier said:
It's too early to say at this point, but if the retaliation is limited to drone strikes, then this is intended to impart as few casualties as possible while offering a way for both countries to de-escalate.

A retaliatory strike intended to hurt the enemy would amount to something akin to firing multiple waves of ballistic and cruise missiles and timing to have them arrive on target simultaneously. Iran probably knows and expects to have most of the drones shot down en route. That allows the Ayatollahs to save face for its people while preventing a serious escalation with Israel that will put its leaders in a significantly more precarious situation. Israel probably expects this as well and sees this as a stepping stone for de-escalation.

Remember when Iran "retaliated" against an US airbase following the killing of Soleimaini? Same kind of flavor.
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Personally I think Iran has to demonstrate effective retaliation in this case, different from the last one against US. Lets wait and see
 
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Urgent: Iran announces the launch of the “first batch” of “ballistic missiles” at Israel

The Iranian News Agency reported, citing an informed source, that the first batch of ballistic missiles had been launched towards the occupied Palestinian territories (Israel).

This comes after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced the launch of dozens of drones towards Israel.

In addition, Israeli Radio quoted a senior official: “Be on alert as the bombing continues and swarms of drones continue from Iran and other countries in the region.”

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Iran has launched drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles in different waves, wheather this escalates to a full scale war depends on the Israeli response.
 
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Bellum_Romanum said:
What is Iran to do? Stay impotent? Collapse the leadership and become just another Arab state under the leadership of the west?
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Build a nuke before retaliating. It's the only real deterrent when going up against opponents possessing nukes.
tankphobia said:
Skies over Jerusalem right now, looks like a decent number made it to Israel.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1779282726643786091
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It appears in the video that many even touched ground.
obj 705A said:
Iran has launched drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles in different waves, wheather this escalates to a full scale war depends on the Israeli response.
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Ballistic missiles should have arrived in a few minutes.
 
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