Iranian Strikes on Israel
RUSI associate fellow and defence analyst Samuel Cranny-Evans told MailOnline: "Iran has deviated from its usual strategy of using proxies to exert influence and conduct conflict in the area and moved to direct state-on-state confrontation. The dynamics have changed and made the risk of conflict greater - both between Israel and Iran, and in the wider region. Israel has and can act independently (of the US) - they have to do something to restore deterrence... Netanyahu is all about security, and in the context of Hamas' October 7 attacks is unlikely to want to be seen as weak in the face of Iranian aggression."
