Tom O'Connor
And with Tehran threatening to respond to such moves with even greater force, the scope and scale of the looming Israeli operation could determine whether or not the Middle East ultimately slides into an all-out war after a year of tit-for-tat escalations.
Sima Shine, a former head of Mossad's Research and Evaluation Division, told Newsweek that she believed it was not in the interests of Israel, Iran, or the United States to enter into such a total confrontation.
Yet, she warned, "It will be difficult not to deteriorate to a full-scale war because, at the end of the day, Israel will probably retaliate in a way that needs to deter Iran from continuing."
Such a strike, she said, would likely be pursued "in a wider way" than the relatively quiet Israeli strike near a nuclear site following a previous Iranian missile and drone barrage fired against Israel in April. That Iranian strike was conducted in response to the killing of Iranian military personnel at a diplomatic compound in Syria.
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