Iran and Israel traded threats on the weekend of what Iran said would be an “obliterating” war over Hezbollah.
US, European and Arab mediators are pressing to keep stepped-up cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militants from spiralling into a wider Middle East war that the world has feared for months.
The Americans and Europeans are warning the group it should not count on the United States or anyone else being able to hold off Israeli leaders if they decide to execute battle-ready plans for an offensive into Lebanon. Despite this past week’s plateauing of hostilities, Gerald Feierstein, a former senior US diplomat in the Middle East said, “it certainly seems the Israelis are still ... arranging themselves in the expectation that there will be some kind of conflict ... an entirely different magnitude of conflict.”The message being delivered to Hezbollah is “don’t think that you’re as capable as you think you are,” he said.
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