Israel-Iran
Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank, said he “wouldn’t be surprised” if Israel “ignored Syrian and Iraqi protestations though, and fly through” their airspace. The alternative would be “a very long route around, down the Red Sea and up,” he added. “It’s difficult to know how much they are trying to get the Iranians second-guessing themselves and tied-up in counter-intelligence knots,” he said, adding that it was generally assessed that a strike on Iran’s deepest nuclear facilities would “require large weapons that can only be dropped from U.S. bombers."
