[HIGHLIGHTS] Attack on Israel: What Iran wants to achieve with the rocket attacks

Iran attacked Israel on Sunday night (April 14) with an estimated 300 rockets and drones. It is still unclear whether there will be a military response from Tel Aviv and what that might look like.

“Unfortunately, we can assume that Iran will do everything to weaken Israel and the United States,” says security policy expert Ulrich Schlie. Schlie: “We have to live with a threat to Iran that is underestimated by many - unfortunately also in Germany.” The attacks should also be seen as “signals of support” for the radical Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, says Schlie, who is a professor of security and strategy research at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn. The best way to “prevent the spiral of violence from spiraling out of control is determination, deterrence and unity,’ says the analyst at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) “America will not abandon Israel in this extremely difficult situation, but will doEverything to avoid escalation,“ explains 58-year-old Franke.