DEEP DIVE – For months, a query has loomed over the Israeli wars in opposition to Hamas and Hezbollah: at what level would Iran, the patron of these militant organizations, strike again? Israel has battered the management and navy capability of each teams, and with every Israeli airstrike and every high-profile killing, the questions adopted: How lengthy might Iran go with out responding? And the way fierce would the response be when it got here?
The world bought a solution Tuesday, in an Iranian missile barrage in opposition to Israel that marked the second main Mideast escalation in lower than 24 hours; late Monday, Israel despatched troops into southern Lebanon in its marketing campaign in opposition to Hezbollah.
