{"id":67476,"date":"2024-04-21T17:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T22:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67476"},"modified":"2024-04-21T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T22:34:17","slug":"israels-strike-on-iran-crisis-shows-how-badly-iran-and-israel-understand-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67476","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israel’s strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/section>\n
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Israel says it will defend itself against Iran – but its allies want to avoid a wider Middle East war<\/span><\/section>\n
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Israel’s attack on Iran was not the fierce response that US President Joe Biden and other western leaders had feared.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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They have been urging Israel to draw a line under the dangerous series of events that started with Israel’s assassination of a senior Iranian general in Damascus on 1 April.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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More than six months after the Hamas attacks on Israel, war continues in Gaza and has spread to the area either side of the Lebanon-Israel border and to the Gulf.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The fear is that the Middle East is on the brink of an all-out war, with global as well as regional dangers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The Iranians are playing down the significance of what’s happened in Isfahan.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Initial reports said there had been no attack. Later, an analyst on state TV said air defences had knocked out drones that had been launched by “infiltrators”.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Official media outlets have posted jokey photos of miniature drones.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Israel was\u00a0responding to the attack last Saturday from Iran<\/a>. Despite years of enmity and threats it was the first time since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979 that Iran had launched a direct strike from its territory onto Israel’s.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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During that attack Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones. Almost all of them were destroyed by Israel’s air defences, augmented by forces from the US, UK and Jordan.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The Iranians had made their intentions clear, giving Israel and its allies time to prepare themselves, and quickly issued a statement at the UN in New York that their retaliation was over.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Mr Biden urged Israel to “take the win” but Israel insisted it would hit back.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Israel’s strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other Reuters Israel says it will defend itself against Iran – but its allies want to avoid a wider Middle East war Israel’s attack on Iran was not the fierce response that US President Joe Biden and other western leaders had feared. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,441,1049,34309,522,862],"class_list":["post-67476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bbc","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-jeremy-bowen","tag-middle-east","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67477,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67476\/revisions\/67477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}