What does Iran’s rocking of the status quo mean for West Asia and the world?

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Iran’s tri-nation attacks on Pakistan, Iraq and Syria, not necessarily in that order, is possibly the first time that any nation in West Asia has trained its guns on three adversaries simultaneously after Israel in 1967. Of course, Iran’s is a limited attack at present, but Tehran’s strategy would have provided for possible, if not plausible counter-attacks from one, if not two or all three nations that it had targeted. In the Six-Day War that June 1967, Israel shocked the enemy and surprised the world by destroying Egypt’s air force almost completely on the ground, and also took on a...