Israel Weighs Retaliation After Massive Iranian Missile Barrage

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• Israel Weighs Retaliation After Massive Iranian Missile Barrage

  This comes right after a long week of meetings at the UN General Assembly in New York, where the Iranian president said that we are not looking to expand, essentially, the conflict. And even at a press gaggle, informed the Israelis that if you lay down your arms, we will do the same, which is unprecedented.

  But this is the response that came through yesterday.

  With regards to Iran's allies, and this is something that is critical to what this regional war may look like. Iran has exploited all the conflicts in the region, very strategically. And so it has militias in Iraq. It has presence on the ground in Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen.

  And so you have a very extensive network of militias and armed groups that can be activated if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard or the Iranian leader basically pushes that button and by activated means all out activation where these groups would attack US and Israeli targets, nonstop.

  But on the flip side of that, then any response from the United States or Israel would also include all these different targets across the region.

  And we've actually heard from some Israeli officials yesterday that if Israel is going to respond, it will not just respond directly, but rather across the region, knowing very well how Iran is well placed through its various proxies,

  The Israelis will 100% respond to this attack and, you know, in terms of the timing and in terms of what that attack would look like, remains to be seen. But we've been hearing from various officials that it will respond in a very serious way. This is the all out regional war scenario that the Biden administration and many of America's key allies in the region have been trying to avert and been warning against since day one.

  But right now, this war is very, very close, closer as it ever was before. It's right at the doorsteps of the region.

  At the end of the day, the people of the region are the ones who are suffering the most, be it, Israelis or Palestinians or Lebanese, but people across the region who who are living in a constant state of anxiety and uncertainty about the future, and it will require political will on all sides to ensure that diplomacy reigns in and stops these wars.