U.S. Must Pull Out All the Stops to Avoid a Regional War After Iran Attacks Israel

Iran launched an attack on Israel Saturday that was apparently designed by Iran to be both dramatic and ineffective.

It was dramatic, because in the long decades of enmity between the two countries, Iran had never directly launched an attack from Iran against targets in Israel. But it was also deliberately ineffective, employing tactics and utilizing weapons that were almost certain to be stopped by the sophisticated air defenses of Israel and its allies like the United States.

Israeli and U.S. reports indicate that the vast majority of incoming Iranian weapons were neutralized.

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