{"id":5260,"date":"2024-08-13T09:01:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:01:53","slug":"will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/?p=5260","title":{"rendered":"Will The US Lead A War Against Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div><p class=\"pvc_stats all \" data-element-id=\"5260\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewBox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 -295 52 -53 146 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https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/e3-1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/e3-1-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/e3-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/clarionindia.net\/will-the-us-lead-war-against-iran\/\n\">https:\/\/clarionindia.net\/will-the-us-lead-war-against-iran\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/maeeshat.in\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/\n\">https:\/\/maeeshat.in\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/muslimmirror.com\/eng\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/\n\">https:\/\/muslimmirror.com\/eng\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gawahweekly.com\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/\n\">https:\/\/gawahweekly.com\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/\n\">https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thekashmirimages.com\/2024\/08\/07\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/\n\">https:\/\/thekashmirimages.com\/2024\/08\/07\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/india\/brighter-kashmir\/20240807\/281921663333318\">https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/india\/brighter-kashmir\/20240807\/281921663333318<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1>Will The US Lead A War Against Iran?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Fears of a regional war in the Middle East spiked after Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets towards Israel. This was in retaliation to the Israeli covert operations, which killed a senior Hezbollah commander and a top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The killing of Hamas Polit Bureau Head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, apparently by a covert IED hidden two months ago and remotely detonated, does not portend well for peace in the region and Gaza.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haniyeh was on top of the elimination list of Mossad and other agencies as Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to destroy Hamas in the wake of the October 7, 2023 attacks, which had an unprecedented success for Hamas\u2014when not only nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed but 250 of them were taken hostage by Hamas. These hostages became the key going forward, as their release remains a priority for Bibi\u2019s administration in Israel, due to months-long domestic protests by distraught families and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The international community has been besieged with the fear that the Israel-Hamas War should not escalate beyond its immediate periphery. Half-baked efforts have been made by several countries including Qatar and China, to rein in the warring parties. Meanwhile, Hamas mustered moral and material support from Hezbollah (Lebanon, Syria) and Houthis (Yemen and the Red Sea), Kataib Hezbollah, and other Shia militias (Iraq) even as other non-state actors kept the escalation under the threshold, presumably with the alleged connivance of Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Netanyahu continued to exploit the strategic weakness of his ironclad support from Washington. His last week\u2019s oration and address to the US Congress and repeated standing ovations could only confirm that Palestinians were expendable. The financial assistance, weapons, and political support were once again assured to Bibi by Biden, Harris, and Trump, even as they urged him to close the ceasefire deal quickly. Some say, hoping for Trump\u2019s victory, Netanyahu is free to do as he pleases until November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, according to a Channel 12 News report, US President Joe Biden told Netanyahu \u2018Stop bullshitting me!\u2019&nbsp; during their conversation on Thursday, last. His remarks came in the context of Israeli-US collaboration in preparation for a potential full-scale conflict with Iran and its allies. Concluding the conversation, President Biden said, \u201cDon\u2019t take the president for granted\u201d. It is pertinent to note that the Biden-Nentayahu conversation took place days after the Haniyeh\u2019s assassination in Iran, but such American exclamations are usually not taken seriously by the Israelis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran and Israel suffer from Mutually Assured Destruction Syndrome (MAD) and consider one another as an existential threat, knowing too well that the open war between them would be disastrous for the region and the world, and the international community will do whatever it takes to stop that. Hence, although worried, US White House spokesman John Kirby reiterated that Washington did not see an all-out conflict in the region as imminent or inevitable and that it was working to prevent that from happening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this time the killing of Haniyeh in Tehran is a typical redline, crossed by Israelis, that will force Iranians to respond visibly in kind, as basically it implies an Iranian \u2018humiliation\u2019 in the international comity. Iran may not take the risk of expanding the war directly, but through its proxies such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis that can carry out the task with plausible deniability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a direct action only could reduce the intensity of \u2018humiliation\u2019 since it happened within a few hours of the new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian\u2019s swearing-in ceremony in the presence of many leaders from the region and beyond. Khamanei and Pezeshkian have both vowed an avenging response and punishment, but what costs they are willing to absorb will decide the quantum, time, and manner of the Iranian response. Hopefully the chain reaction will be avoided and pragmatism will prevail. Israel killing several top leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah has redeemed Netanyahu\u2019s credibility with his people, to some extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran and regional armed groups aligned with the country are preparing to respond to Israel over the assassinations of Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, an Al Jazeera report describing Iran, Lebanon, Jordan as self-styled \u2018axis-of-resistance\u2019 for being at odds with United States-Israeli hegemony in the region, says that Iran and its allies will seek to restore deterrence against Israel without provoking a full-blown regional war, while warning that the space for miscalculation is razor-thin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of the lines of argument in Iran right now is that they need to show a firm response and show their readiness to enter into a war in order to de-escalate,\u201d Hamidreza Azizi, an expert on Iran and a non-resident fellow with the Middle East Council on Global Affairs think tank in Doha, Qatar, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicholas Blanford, an expert on Hezbollah with the Atlantic Council, a Washington, DC-based think tank told Al Jazeera that he thinks the overall strategic outlook remains the same in the sense that Hezbollah does not want to escalate this into a massive war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some analysts warn that a substantial attack by the \u2018axis-of-resistance\u2019 risks killing Israeli military personnel or civilians, thereby raising the spectre of a major regional conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohanad Hage Ali, an expert on Lebanon and a senior fellow with Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut, told Al Jazeera that Hezbollah has announced it will retaliate against Israel for killing Shukr and that it is likely to participate in a joint attack with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the bigger question is whether the US under a Democratic administration will try to quell the regional war from escalating or try to end the Iranian hegemony in the region, once and for all. Going by the Democratic Party\u2019s track record, President Biden, might not give the go ahead for a full-out war supporting Israel, with the American presidential elections just a few months away, also he would not like to leave behind a legacy, which would make him the first Democratic President to order a war. Just a reminder that most of the wars led by America like the Korean War, Vietnam War and Iraq War were spearheaded when the Republicans were at the helm of affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"pvc_stats all \" data-element-id=\"5260\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewBox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 -295 52 -53 146 -42 177 20 16 31 87 366 87 410 0 70 -86 122 -155 94z\"\/><path d=\"M1751 3234 c-13 -9 -29 -31 -37 -50 -12 -29 -10 -49 21 -204 19 -94 39 -189 45 -210 14 -50 54 -80 110 -80 34 0 48 6 76 34 21 21 34 44 34 59 0 14 -18 113 -40 219 -37 178 -43 195 -70 221 -36 32 -101 37 -139 11z\"\/><path d=\"M1163 3073 c-36 -7 -73 -59 -73 -102 0 -56 133 -378 171 -413 34 -32 83 -37 129 -13 70 36 67 87 -16 290 -86 209 -89 214 -129 231 -35 14 -42 15 -82 7z\"\/><path d=\"M3689 3066 c-15 -9 -33 -30 -42 -48 -48 -103 -147 -355 -147 -375 0 -98 131 -148 192 -74 13 15 57 108 97 206 80 196 84 226 37 273 -30 30 -99 39 -137 18z\"\/><path d=\"M583 2784 c-38 -19 -67 -74 -58 -113 9 -42 211 -354 242 -373 16 -10 45 -18 66 -18 51 0 107 52 107 100 0 39 -1 41 -124 234 -80 126 -108 162 -133 173 -41 17 -61 16 -100 -3z\"\/><path d=\"M4250 2784 c-14 -9 -74 -91 -133 -183 -95 -150 -107 -173 -107 -213 0 -55 33 -94 87 -104 67 -13 90 8 211 198 130 202 137 225 78 284 -27 27 -42 34 -72 34 -22 0 -50 -8 -64 -16z\"\/><path d=\"M2275 2693 c-553 -48 -1095 -270 -1585 -649 -135 -104 -459 -423 -483 -476 -23 -49 -22 -139 2 -186 73 -142 361 -457 571 -626 285 -228 642 -407 990 -497 242 -63 336 -73 660 -74 310 0 370 5 595 52 535 111 1045 392 1455 803 122 121 250 273 275 326 19 41 19 137 0 174 -41 79 -309 363 -465 492 -447 370 -946 591 -1479 653 -113 14 -422 18 -536 8z m395 -428 c171 -34 330 -124 456 -258 112 -119 167 -219 211 -378 27 -96 24 -300 -5 -401 -72 -255 -236 -447 -474 -557 -132 -62 -201 -76 -368 -76 -167 0 -236 14 -368 76 -213 98 -373 271 -451 485 -162 444 86 934 547 1084 153 49 292 57 452 25z m909 -232 c222 -123 408 -262 593 -441 76 -74 138 -139 138 -144 0 -16 -233 -242 -330 -319 -155 -123 -309 -223 -461 -299 l-81 -41 32 46 c18 26 49 83 70 128 143 306 141 649 -6 957 -25 52 -61 116 -79 142 l-34 47 45 -20 c26 -10 76 -36 113 -56z m-2057 25 c-40 -58 -105 -190 -130 -263 -110 -324 -59 -707 132 -981 25 -35 42 -64 37 -64 -19 0 -241 119 -326 174 -188 122 -406 314 -532 468 l-58 71 108 103 c185 178 428 349 672 473 66 33 121 60 123 61 2 0 -10 -19 -26 -42z\"\/><path d=\"M2375 1950 c-198 -44 -350 -190 -395 -379 -18 -76 -8 -221 19 -290 114 -284 457 -406 731 -260 98 52 188 154 231 260 27 69 37 214 19 290 -38 163 -166 304 -326 360 -67 23 -215 33 -279 19z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/i> &nbsp;214&nbsp;total views, &nbsp;1&nbsp;views today<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;214&nbsp;total views, &nbsp;1&nbsp;views today https:\/\/clarionindia.net\/will-the-us-lead-war-against-iran\/ https:\/\/maeeshat.in\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/ https:\/\/muslimmirror.com\/eng\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/ https:\/\/gawahweekly.com\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/ https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/ https:\/\/thekashmirimages.com\/2024\/08\/07\/will-the-us-lead-a-war-against-iran\/ https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/india\/brighter-kashmir\/20240807\/281921663333318 Will The US Lead A War Against Iran? 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