Prelude to conflict? Israel’s Gaza exit, tense Eid and Iran’s guessing game

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It is difficult to say whether Israel has been successful in finally baiting out Iran to join battle directly this time or whether Iran was waiting for such a ‘red line’ to be crossed so that it could declare war legitimately on Israel The Gaza war has taken a dramatic turn in the past few weeks. It all started on 1 April when an Israeli strike in Syria targeted the Iranian Consulate in Damascus resulting in the death of seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) including General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the seniormost commander in Lebanon and Syria....