The risk of Iranian reprisals against Israel becomes increasingly clear. Many actors are calling for calm and despair.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called his Chinese, Turkish and Saudi counterparts to pressure Iran against any attack targeting Israel. If according to the Wall Street Journal Israel says it expects an attack on the north or south of its territory by the night of Saturday to Sunday, a source close to the Iranian leaders affirms that no decision has been made. In this vagueness, mediation therefore attempts to take place. “Iranians are not ideological fanatics who turn a blind eye. Everything is calculated for them,” recalls Adel Bakawan, Middle East specialist and director of the French Center for Research on Iraq. In other words, Tehran should not hit Israel to a degree that could do it a great disservice afterwards. The tension continues to rise. More than ten days after the strike on an Iranian consular building in Damascus (Syria) on April 1, the threat of retaliation from Tehran is growing.