Israel's strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other - BBC News

After decades of rivalry, the rival Middle East powers have both miscalculated, writes Jeremy Bowen.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, Israel says it will defend itself against Iran - but its allies want to avoid a wider Middle East warBy Jeremy BowenBBC international editor Israel's attack on Iran was not the fierce response that US President Joe Biden and other western leaders had feared.

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.

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.

The fear is that the Middle East is on the brink of an all-out war, with global as well as regional dangers.

The Iranians are playing down the significance of what's happened in Isfahan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68853403

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