The risky game of Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei in his standoff with Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden

The risky game of Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei in his standoff with Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden
The risky game of Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei in his standoff with Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden

ANALYSE – The Iranian regime, which has understood that its survival is at stake, is trying to control its responses to the Jewish state, while reassuring its cronies, Hezbollah and Hamas.

Special envoy to Beirut

By attacking Israel for the first time with hypersonic missiles, Iran took the risk of incurring a massive Israeli response that could endanger its vital interests. Iranian restraint, after the double assassination on July 30 and 31 of the military leader of Hezbollah in Beirut Fouad Chokr, then of Ismaël Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, in Tehran, was shattered. But, while Israeli reprisals seem inevitable, how far is Iran ready to go in a direct confrontation with the Jewish state and the United States, which it did not want just a few weeks ago? ?

« Iran likely counting on the Biden Administration to restrain Israel in its retaliationestimates Canadian researcher Thomas Juneau, but it’s a bad bet: the Biden Administration showed herself incapable to slow down Benyamin Netanyahu. » Does she have the desire now, when she…

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