Recently, we have been able to observe increased diplomatic activity of governments – including Russia, Jordan and any Gulf states – calling on Iran to refrain from besides intensive action [against] Israel – a crowd.]. However, as the killing is seen as a direct attack on Iran's sovereignty, its spiritual leadership is under strong interior force to respond with considerable force.
The US has besides made a widely commented decision to increase its already crucial military forces in the region. A fresh combat group of U.S. Navy carriers will now take the place of 1 to leave the Oman Gulf, and an additional squadron of assault aircraft will be moved to the region, as will subsequent destroyers, cruisers and land-based air defence systems. The Pentagon besides ordered that a atomic submarine, armed with maneuvering missiles, be sent to this region.
Meanwhile, Israel continues the war in Gaza Strip. So far, the army has destroyed many urban areas and killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, but Hamas remains active. On Saturday morning, 80 Palestinians were killed in 3 Israeli raids at the Tabeen School in Gaza, where 6,000 displaced people were sheltered, data coming from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Tensions besides persist in confederate Lebanon, where a low-intensity conflict between Israel and Hezbollah continues to turn into rocket and air strikes again. The situation has developed since the Hamas attack on confederate Israel last October and led to large-scale evacuation on both sides of the border.
So far, more than 400 people have died in Lebanon alone – most of them are the paramilitary members of Hezbollah. Another 94,000 people surviving on the Lebanese side of the border were displaced. Israel evacuated 65,000 border residents.
According to Charbel Cordahi, economist and financial advisor to the Lebanese government, the cost of harm in Lebanon was only $15 billion by the end of May. Israel appears to be determined to escalate activities, starting with the assassination in Beirut at the beginning of this year's elder military commander Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri.
In July of that year, the Israeli army killed 1 of Hezbollah's elder military commanders, Fuad Shukry. The comments of retired military officers and any politicians published in Israeli media indicate that neither the government of Binjamin Netanyahu nor the Israeli defence Force (IDF) want a full-scale war with Hezbollah, whose paramilitary wing is much stronger than the armed possible of Hamas at the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip after 7 October. Since the last Israeli-Lebanese War in 2006, Hezbollah has increased its arsenal size 10 times. The Israeli government knows perfectly well that even the most concentrated air defence strategy can be defeated by hundreds of missiles fired in a short period of time.
What Israel would truly want is to carry out intensive raids on civilian infrastructure in Lebanon, especially in Hezbollah's spheres of influence, which it did already in 2006, but this time the scale of attacks to halt the organization in the future would be even greater. Thus, Israel would likely destruct the Lebanese economy, which would be very dangerous given the hazard of miscalculation and escalation.
Hezbollah is simply a leading example of the paramilitary movement, powerfully supported by Iran. It is not in direct conflict with U.S. forces, although 1 of its earliest actions has been recorded in Pentagon military history: it is about killing 241 American Marines in a double suicide bombing, aimed at an American stabilisation operation in Lebanon in 1983.
However, the American military is active in a direct conflict with another paramilitary and military representatives of Iran – Yemen and Iraq. Western media seldom compose about this beyond safety publications, but these activities are part of an ongoing war of lower intensity.
In the last fewer months, there have been air strikes under U.S. command against Iran-supported Iraqi militias, including a series following their assassination from Iraqi territory, and targeted at a military location just off the Jordan border. On Monday, August 5, there was a rocket attack on American military units at al-Assad Air Base in Iraq. According to reports, the attack was carried out from Iraq and injured 7 American soldiers and civilians.
In addition, there is simply a conflict with Huti government in Yemenalso supported by Iran. At the beginning of this week, a container ship flying the Liberian flag – Liberia is an ally of the United States – was hit by a rocket fired from Yemen, which is the last component in a series involving the continuous offensive and defensive military action of the West in the mediate East. The vast majority of them are led by US forces, but the United Kingdom, Israel and another states are besides involved.
The U.S. level of activity is notable, regardless of whether it is aimed at drones and missiles already in the air, those on the ground, or radars and another military targets. In July of this year, 20 specified incidents were reported, as in June, however, the Huti announce that they will proceed the attacks [on American targets—among the crowd.] until Israel ceases the war with Hamas.
There are serious concerns about the possible extended war in the mediate East, resulting from Israel's existing conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah, but the war is already taking place on a large scale. The United States is profoundly active in it through its strong military support to Israel, as are respective another Western allies, of whom Britain is the most obvious.
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The text was published on openDemocracy.net
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