Iran’s missiles were shot down – but they still delivered what Tehran was hoping for
The Guardian -

The attack exposed the limits of the US’s willingness to be dragged into a wider conflict. This may moderate Israel’s next moveEarlier this month, after an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus killed several military commanders, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, used his sermon to mark Eid al-Fitr to equate Israel’s attack on the diplomatic facility to an attack on Iranian soil, and vowed that Israel’s “mistake” would be punished. At just that moment, the broadcast...

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