IranIsrael War The Conflict That Will Change the World Forever 092

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Iran isreal war • Lebanon conflict and Hezbollah • Iran and Israel Shift From Proxy War to Direct Conflict • In April, both Iran and Israel launched air strikes into each other’s territory for the first time. This is a significant escalation in a decades-long cold war that has seen Iran put pressure on Israel via Arab proxy militias. While the direct strikes have inflicted no casualties yet, the adversaries have now crossed a line they cannot uncross. • On April 1, a targeted Israeli strike targted two Iranian generals and five other personnel in Damascus. In response, on April 13, Iran attacked Israel directly, launching over 300 drones and missiles. Israel, with its Iron Dome air defense system, was reportedly able to intercept 99% of the incoming weapons and suffered no casualties. On April 19, Israel retaliated with a limited strike in Isfahan, in central Iran, also with no casualties. • The Islamic Republic has been the biggest supporter of Palestine in confrontation with Israel. On the anniversary of Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, tensions between Iran and Israel have escalated to the brink of all-out war. • Under Ali Khamenei's 35-year leadership, military power has been the most crucial pillar of Iran's strategic policy. When seeking to project its power or strengthen proxy groups, the Islamic Republic has relied on military assistance as its primary tool. • Over the past three decades, Iran has focused on empowering proxy groups as an indirect means of military engagement. However, after Hamas' October 7 attack and Israel's intensified strikes on Iranian interests, this strategy is shifting toward direct deterrence, including, from Iranian soil. • Iran’s Shift to Direct Military Engagement • The roots of this situation trac back to the severe military constraints Iran faced during its eight-year war with Iraq. • The dismissal and execution of Shah-era officers by the revolutionaries, widespread cancellation of military purchases from the U.S. and U.K. and U.S. sanctions after Iran’s involvement in 1983 bom bing of U.S. military barracks in Beirut severely weakened the Islamic Republic. These pressures forced Iran to begin domestic military production after the war. • Harsh U.S. sanctions stopped the modernization of Iran’s air force and navy for four decades, while making it challenging to obtain modern weapons for the army. In response, Khamenei’s policy focused on missile industries, relying on North Korean technology. It focused on missiles substituting for warplanes and military aircraft. • After succeeding Ruhollah Khomeini, Khamenei, with weaker authority among clerics and politicians, consolidated power by centering it around the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). • Alongside expanding the IRGC’s missile programs, Khamenei’s leadership focused on developing the Quds Force (the IRGC's foreign branch) and strengthening Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel's neighbor, largely under the 22-year command of Qasem Soleimani. • Soleimani’s key policy was creating and arming militia groups across the region to advance Iran’s defensive strategies and wage proxy wars against Israel. • Khomeini famously declared, We say Israel must be wiped off the map, and Jerusalem belongs to Muslims and is the first qibla of Muslims. The Quds Force's name reflects this idea, as well as his statement that The road to Jerusalem passes through Karbala. • Israel has been oppressing Palestine for decades • https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/is... • https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20... • • #iranwar #hezbollah #iranvsisrael #isrealattack #lebanonvsisrael #middleeast #hamas #lebanonconflict

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