Understanding Iran’s strategic patience and why it is over now

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Add the potency of proxies, and Iran suddenly emerges as a power like no other in the region. And, it has not yet gone nuclear! On April 13, Iran, breaking off the trend established for decades, launched a direct military attack from its soil against a nation—that too its sworn enemy, Israel—in a massive and simultaneous strike of drones and missiles, numbering in excess of 300. This attack was a retaliatory response to an earlier Israeli strike on April 1, which targeted the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, resulting in the deaths of seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...