At the end of last week, the war of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against Iran became official. Israel launched a series of air attacks aimed at Iran’s nuclear facilities, government buildings and military headquarters, as well as military leaders and scientists. I write that the conflict “became official”, because during the last 20 months, Israel was already involved in a war of power against militant groups supported by Iran, either Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon or the hutis in Yemen. Israel and Iran had also exchanged attacks with missiles, drones and air twice last year, in their first direct confrontation. And before that, they had a leg committed to what many observers called a war of shadows dating from a decade.
Now, as the Israel-Iran war will enter its second week, there are questions about how much the conflict will last and if it will be or win in other powers, namely, the United States. But another key question refers to understanding how war began.
Initially, Israel said he launched the attacks to prevent Iran to produce nuclear weapons, which said Tehran was in the hive. Iran has long maintained that its nuclear program is for strictly civil purposes and has denied that it has some intention to arm. The consensus among Western intelligence agencies is that Tehran pursued a nuclear weapon in the early 2000s, but subsequently abandoned those objectives.
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