What’s holding up Israeli retaliation against Iran and what are its options? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Analysis

Ben Caspit

Apr 16, 2024

Members of the Israeli military show an Iranian ballistic missile which fell in Israel on the weekend, during a media tour at the Julis military base near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi on April 16, 2024. Iran carried out an unprecedented direct attack on Israel overnight April 13-14, using more than 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, in retaliation for a deadly April 1 air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Nearly all were intercepted, according to the Israeli army. — Members of the Israeli military show an Iranian ballistic missile which fell in Israel on the weekend, during a media tour at the Julis military base near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi on April 16, 2024. Iran carried out an unprecedented direct attack on Israel overnight April 13-14, using more than 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, in retaliation for a deadly April 1 air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Nearly all were intercepted, according to the Israeli army. — GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images

Israeli-armored vehicles take position near the border with Syria in the village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, Oct. 25, 2021.

Analysis

Israel plans ‘painful and incisive’ response to Hezbollah but not all-out Lebanon war

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

This picture taken on April 15, 2024 shows a view of a billboard depicting named Iranian ballistic missiles in service, with text in Arabic reading "the honest [person's] promise" and in Persian "Israel is weaker than a spider's web", in Valiasr Square in central Tehran. Iran on April 14 urged Israel not to retaliate militarily to an unprecedented attack overnight, which Tehran presented as a justified response to a deadly strike on its consulate building in Damascus. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by

Analysis

Israel, Iran at a draw after Isfahan attack, ready to return to covert war

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Israel's Iron Dome defence missile system is on alert, stationed close to the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Oct. 12, 2023.

Analysis

Israel's Netanyahu 'unlikely to disobey Biden' as Iran attack readjusts alliances

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Iran war heads

Analysis

With US on its side, Israel expects any imminent Iran attack to be 'measured'

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense