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Netanyahu’s attack and rhetoric on Iran is playing with fire

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Published: 16 April 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

While the PM talks tough to exploit the political capital of a potential crisis, each tit-for-tat exchange makes increase the risk of a genuine clash with Iran

Netanyahu is playing with fire in Iran (Haaretz)
YOSSI MELMAN: If Israel really did seek ‘revenge’ by attacking Iranian targets, then it’s changed the unwritten rules of the unacknowledged game, which could have grave consequences

Israel is walking straight into an Iran crisis with eyes wide open (Haaretz)
AMOS HAREL: Netanyahu confident, and at times even arrogant, public statement may be misleading. But the risk of a clash with Iran is growing more and more likely

European powers warn Iran over 'dangerous' uranium enrichment move (Reuters)

Iran dismisses Vienna nuclear deal offers as ‘not worth looking at’ (Times of Israel)
As negotiations thrown into disarray following Natanz facility sabotage, supreme leader Khamenei warns the US time could be running out

Natanz attack hit 50 metres underground, destroyed most of the facility (Jerusalem Post)
The attack was reportedly carried out through a remotely detonated device smuggled into the facility

Attack on third Israeli-owned ship reported in Gulf of Oman (Al-Monitor)
News reports from Lebanon and Arab media say an Israeli-owned car carrier was damaged off Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates

Nuclear sabotage could be what Iran needed (Foreign Policy)
This week’s attack on an Iranian enrichment facility has improved the country’s negotiating position

Photo: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard troops march in a military parade in Tehran (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
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