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...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...In September, the US and Iran agreed to a prisoner exchange and Washington unfroze $6bn in Iranian oil money....
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...In response, Washington warned Tehran “to not use the strike as a pretext to further escalate in the region or attack US facilities or personnel”....
...Tehran and Washington....
...That view resonates in Bartow County, which heavily backed Trump in 2020 — and whose representative in Washington voted against the IRA in Congress....
...The US has also repeatedly sought to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from widening into a regional conflict....
...City and regional officials in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia reported eight missile strikes on civilian objects....
...Naysan Rafati, an Iran expert at the International Crisis Group in Washington, said there were precedents for such a mission but noted “these have generally been conducted covertly”....
...No US casualties were reported, but the attack will heighten fears that Washington is being drawn deeper into a widening regional conflict sparked by the Israel-Hamas war....
...There has been intermittent talk that Israel or the US will bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities....
...Tehran has said the Islamic republic does not want direct conflict with the US and Israel, or a regional war....
...As long as Washington decouples a ceasefire in Gaza from dangerous regional dynamics, things will get worse....
...The strikes in Syria and Iraq targeted Iran’s facilities linked to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards for the first time....
...“In an unforgivable one-word tweet, Ben-Gvir managed to mock and shame Israel from Tehran to Washington.”...
...Washington is under pressure to respond to Iranian-aligned militant attacks against American forces while also trying to avoid being drawn deeper into a widening regional conflict....
..., weapon depots and command facilities....
...“The investment serves our mutual interests in pushing back on the Chinese Communist party’s aggressive regional designs.”...
...So it will come down to Washington. I think the fundamental issue here is Washington does not want a regional war. American officials have spent a lot of time and capital avoiding that....
...Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the guards, said Iran’s attack “could have been much larger but we restricted it to only target facilities the regime had used to attack the consulate”....
...Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ignored that last bit of advice and on Friday launched an undeclared strike on an Iranian military facility in Isfahan....
...Washington has already put pressure on Kuala Lumpur for “tilting” towards Beijing under Anwar, who took office in 2022....
...But tensions between Israel and Iran have increased since October, leading to deadlier Israeli strikes targeting Iranian facilities....
...After Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates led a regional embargo against Qatar in 2017, the nation of just 2.6mn people has moved aggressively to rebuild its image, including spending heavily on Washington...
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