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US calls for calm after officials say Israeli missile hit Iran - BBC News | |
(32 minutes later) | |
Lyse Doucet | |
Chief international correspondent | |
For now, | |
there’s a sigh of relief, a pause. | |
Israel’s limited strike, not | |
officially acknowledged, has given space to Tehran. In this grey area, its | |
leaders are casting it as a slap so weak it’s not even clear who did it. They | |
don’t lose face after days of declarations vowing that even the tiniest Israeli | |
invasion would provoke an immediate and harsh response. | |
Many had predicted Israel would | |
wait until after Passover to retaliate. It appears to have decided it needed to | |
hit sooner, to send a clear signal, just before the holiday starts. It may | |
still strike again, in a different place, with different force, when this | |
period ends. | |
But as my colleague Jeremy Bowen writes, this crisis really illustrates how badly Iran and Israel understand each other. | |
This may have been just a warning salvo into the beating heart of | |
Iran, the province of Isfahan with its stunning Islamic architecture but also a | |
nuclear facility, a major air base, the industrial heartland including | |
drone and ballistic missile factories. | |
This round | |
may be over, for now, but the seething hostility between two regional rivals is | |
not. | |
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