Are Iran and Israel heading to war? That’s the question posed by this week’s New Statesman and one being asked by growing numbers of people following an exchange of hostilities between the two nations along the Israel-Syria border. Iran fired 20 missiles at Israeli military installations on the Golan Heights, although none were successfully hit. In response, Israel launched in excess of 60 missiles at Iranian military installations in Syria, destroying much of Tehran’s military capability in that country and killing at least 20, according to reports.
Although it comes in the same week that Donald Trump ended American participation in the Iran nuclear deal (the accord between Iran, the United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany to halt Tehran’s attempts to acquire a nuclear bomb), the attack and counter-attack are not the result of the US president’s actions.
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