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...The attack was the first direct strike by the Islamic Republic on the Jewish state....
...Opting to again launch air strikes against Iranian personnel and proxies outside the Islamic republic, analysts said, would be a lower-risk form of retaliation....
...Tehran has also studiously refrained from direct clashes with Israel, choosing not to respond to assassinations of nuclear and security personnel inside the Islamic Republic in recent years, which it has...
...In a telephone call with Netanyahu after Iran’s attack, Biden told the Israeli prime minister that Israel had “come out far ahead” of the Islamic republic, a senior US official said....
...Iran and Israel have a history of targeting each other’s interests, but the Islamic republic has never launched a direct strike against the Jewish state....
...between the Islamic Republic and Israel....
...Foreign minister Israel Katz said that, “alongside the military response” Israel was considering, he had contacted dozens of countries as part of a “diplomatic offensive against Iran”....
...Iran launched its weekend barrage — the first time the Islamic Republic has targeted the Jewish state directly — in retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Damascus that killed several...
...A poll carried out by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem this week found 52 per cent of Israelis thought the country should not respond to the drone-and-missile barrage — the first time the Islamic republic...
...Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign minister, accused Iran of conducting a “pirate operation”....
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...The withdrawal of the guards commanders was viewed as a sign of the Islamic republic seeking to de-escalate tensions with the US....
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...Meanwhile, a Lebanese man accused by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control of funnelling Iranian money to Hamas was found dead in a town near Beirut....
...It is also revealing about how the Islamic republic is finding it increasingly difficult to impose the official narrative....
...Iranian deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani, who is also Tehran’s top nuclear negotiator, represented the Islamic republic....
...London accusing the Islamic republic and its loyal forces was therefore “a bitter historic sarcasm”, the minister said on Tuesday....
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