“Glory destroyed” – Time

High tension in the Middle East. If the balance between Israel and Hamas had already been destroyed starting from the now distant 7th October, those between Tel Aviv and Tehran are starting to lose their definition now that Iran has launched an attack on Jerusalem. Is it possible that there is little time left for escalation? This is the question that stands out the most on the pages of newspapers. Israel has not yet told the United States how it intends to respond to the attack suffered by Iran last Sunday, but has signaled its willingness to carry out limited action to avoid a further widening of the regional crisis. Two anonymous US officials declared this to the television station “CBS News”, according to which Jerusalem was preparing “an action of limited scope, such as an attack once morest forces close to Tehran in the region or a cyber attack on Iran”. «Cbs News» also quotes Raz Zimmt, of the Israeli think tank Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), according to whom Israel will not launch a large-scale attack once morest numerous targets in Iran, but more likely «one or two (attacks ), perhaps once morest targets inside Iran.”

Iran, meanwhile, celebrated the “success” of its missile and drone attack on Israel during a military parade in Tehran. Last Saturday’s operation, called Honest Promise, “destroyed the glory of the Zionist regime,” President Ebrahim Raisi said at a military base on the outskirts of the capital. “This operation has shown that our armed forces are ready,” he said in a speech addressed to the regular army and the Guardians of the Revolution. Various weapons were brought to the parade, including drones and long-range ballistic missiles. In his speech Raisi also criticized the countries that had “tried to normalize relations” with Israel. “These countries are now humiliated in front of their own people, which constitutes a strategic failure for the regime” of Israel, he added. In 2020, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco normalized relations with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords brokered by the United States and vehemently criticized by the Palestinians.