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Israel Iran latest news: US calls for calm after officials say Israel hit Iran - BBC News US calls for calm after officials say Israeli missile hit Iran - BBC News
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Lyse Doucet
Chief international correspondent
Iran has downplayed the reports of an attack and the Israeli government has not officially commented. For now,
BBC Verify has analysed videos sent to BBC Persian which show a succession of flashes in the sky. 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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