WHEN İRAN SAID DON'T

by Gilad Atzmon.

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Iran proved again this morning that it is the only adult in the room. Its ballistic attack on Israel deployed the most careful and measured strategy but it delivered an undeniable message to Israel and the Israelis— ‘we can hit you hard and painfully.’ Iran basically told Israel, if you consider to escalate this conflict which YOU yourself started, just DON’T!

Iran deployed a very clever and anticipated doctrine that makes the entire Western defence system obsolete. Iran sent around a hundred of relatively primitive and slow drones that warned Israel of a coming attack in hours. These drones made British and American pilots extremely busy during the night. Then about five hours later, Iran launched dozens of ballistic missiles aiming at the Israeli Negev desert - an area sparsely populated. Israel intercepted most of these missiles. But then came the slightly more sophisticated and accurate missiles that successfully hit Nevatim IAF base in the Negev. Nevatim air base is the home for the squadron that hit the Iranian embassy in Damascus two weeks ago and escalated to Israeli Iran conflict into a war.

In Israel the event is presented by the media as a great military victory but it is far from it. Every decision maker within the Israeli security circuit knows this morning that Iran indicated that it knows how to crack the Israeli and Western anti missile defence system and there is nothing Israel, USA Britain, or anyone else could do about it.

By the time Israel’s air defence system is exhausted being engaged with many low grade rockets the real dangerous missiles appeared in the sky and they hit their targets. This strategy makes every American base and aircraft carrier into a sitting duck. Needless to mention that Israel wouldn’t be able to defend its cities, strategic infrastructure or command centres.

The problem at the moment is obvious. Though Iran proved to be mature, rational, restrained and ethical. Israel is led by irrational, psychotic and genocidal government. It is hard to imagine Israel not retaliating at this point in time.

The Israeli media reports that Biden has demanded Israel not to retaliate but Biden’s DON’T has even lesser effect on Netanyahu’s friends than on the Iranians.