Israel has no shortage of reasons to attack Iran, but a conflagration of the northern front with Lebanon would put the IDF to the test of two simultaneous high-intensity conflicts. After six months of bloody war in Gaza, not much is missing for the Middle East to fall completely into chaos.
Mohammad Reza Zahedi is the highest-ranking Iranian officer directly targeted by the Jewish state. It is also the first time that the IDF has struck a diplomatic complex in Syria, authorizing Tehran to cloak itself in virtue.