Iran Pushed Into Missile Fire by Sustained Israel Escalation
- Islamic Republic fired 200 missiles at Israel on Tuesday night
- Response to Hezbollah leader’s death left many underwhelmed
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Iran’s generals and clerics have repeatedly shown a reluctance to go to war in recent months, yet the scale of Israel’s damage to the country’s regional prowess left them with little option but to retaliate.
The assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week dealt a crushing blow to Iran’s decades-in-the-making network of armed allies, the most powerful of which is the Lebanon-based group, designated a terrorist organization by the US and other countries. His death in an Israeli airstrike came either side of days of intense bombing, followed by a ground incursion early Monday.