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April 12, 2024

Iran’s Options for Revenge on Israel

After a high-profile strike, Tehran risks looking weak.

On April 1, an Israeli airstrike on Damascus killed three Iranian generals, one of whom was the seniormost Iranian commander in the region. The IDF has been targeting Iranian personnel and weaponry in Syria for over a decade, but the killing of such a high-ranking figure raises the stakes significantly. In the past several days, Israelis have received a number of warnings both from the press and from the home-front command to ready themselves for retaliatory attacks. Jonathan Spyer considers what shape that attack might take:

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April 12, 2024

  1. Iran’s Options for Revenge on Israel

    After a high-profile strike, Tehran risks looking weak.

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