'Escalation is coming': Middle East on edge as new Israeli-US attack on Iran looms
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'Escalation is coming': Middle East on edge as new Israeli-US attack on Iran looms
'Escalation is coming': Middle East on edge as new Israeli-US attack on Iran looms US diplomats are preparing for embassy evacuations. Israeli fighter jets are conducting sorties on the Iranian border. The mood among Arab and US officials in the region who spoke to Middle East Eye is that it’s a question of when, not if, the US and Israel resume attacking Iran. With Iran threatening to retaliate by bombing trillions of dollars worth of US-linke…
Increased US economic pressure, regional military moves, and the possibility of joint attacks by Washington and Tel Aviv have brought the war against Iran to a critical stage. Disagreements over the ultimate goals have complicated the calculations of the two sides. Any conflict could affect the security of the Strait of Hormuz, the global energy market, and the countries of the region.
The Middle East is entering a very dangerous juncture amid heightened diplomatic warnings of the region's slide into a wide-ranging military confrontation. Attention is increasingly being paid to the prospect of an American military strike against Iran, a scenario that threatens to ignite the long-standing fronts of conflict, particularly the Lebanese arena, which is wary of the potential violent consequences of any security explosion in the reg…
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Israel sought to preempt attacks on Iran, but without success. Amid fears of escalation, the US is accelerating the evacuation of diplomats and their families from Middle Eastern countries, including Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait.
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