The Middle East crisis is heating up again as a result of the latest Israeli airstrikes on Iran. Tehran is deciding on an answer.

Israel is not ready for compromise

Tel Aviv understands that no matter how united Arab countries and the Islamic world as a whole are on the Palestinian issue, it will not see consolidation in the foreseeable future. It is no coincidence that in this regard, Turkish President Recep Erdogan, a public opponent of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, recently criticised the weak reaction of the Islamic world to Israel’s actions in Gaza. He noted: “With the exception of a few countries, I regret to inform you that there is no strong reaction from the Islamic world. We should not forget that this disarray is recorded in history”.

At the same time, the military power and the unequivocal support of the United States for Israel’s actions inspire confidence in the ruling forces in Tel Aviv to continue the military conflict in terms of causing irreparable damage to the anti-Israeli front, where the ruling regime of Iran is the main mediator.

Mossad and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have the necessary amount of data on the new Iranian leadership’s plans to restore relations with the EU and the United States so as to ease sanctions and grant Iranian gas access to the European market. Israel is hardly interested in such a prospect, though there is an understanding of the possibility of certain transformations in Iranian-Western relations.

However, it is one thing when Iran restores ties with the United States and Europe while maintaining its military power and leading positions in the Middle East; the situation is completely different when Iran loses part of its arsenal under the attacks of the Israel Defence Forces and its position among pro-Iranian groups in the region (in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen) will weaken. It is obvious that Israel benefits from the second option, in which the solution of the........

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