Neither wants a fully fledged war despite the language,but further confrontations are expectedArch-enemies Iran and Israel crossed a line this weekend that both have been warning approximately for years: a direct confrontation between their militaries.
In just a few hours, a potentially devastating precedent was set between two of the region’s most bellicose states when Israel downed a drone in its airspace that it claimed was Iranian. After responding by bombing what Israel said was an Iranian target deep in Syria, and one Israeli F-16 fighter jet crashed amid a barrage of Syrian anti-aircraft missiles. Having lost its first jet in decades,Israel again hit what it said were Iranian targets, this time near Damascus.
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Source: guardian.co.uk