Iran has launched a barrage of drones and missiles against Israel. The attack comes after successive attacks and murders of senior officials of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Iran believes that it is Israel that has crossed limits that it considers intolerable. The barrage also establishes the “internal credibility of the regime,” says Spanish-Iranian analyst Daniel Bashandeh.. Iran is not a democracy and has a disastrous record of human rights violations. Israel is only a democracy for the Jews, while it imposes a regime on the Palestinians that NGOs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch define as apartheid. The G-7 countries have addressed the same reproach in a statement in which they condemn their attack on Israel. In turn, “it serves the veil for the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to reinforce the hard line of the circle of his circle’s members,’ says Bash andeh. “We have decided to launch a new equation [with respect to Israel]. From now on, any assault on our people, our property or our interests will trigger a reciprocal response.”