Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Iran’s attacks on Israel were an attempt to shape the region on its own terms – and it might just do so

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par Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University

Iran fired barrages of missiles at Israel for the first time in two months on June 7. The initial trigger was an Israeli strike against a Hezbollah target in the Lebanese capital of Beirut earlier that day, an attack that Donald Trump had only recently asked the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to avoid carrying out.

Israel’s military soon launched retaliatory strikes on targets in western and central Iran, again defying calls by Trump for restraint. Iran…

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