Middle East: The shadow war is over
On the evening of April 13, Iran launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israeli territory in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike on April 1 that targeted an Iranian diplomatic facility in Damascus, resulting in the deaths of several high-ranking members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The attack came after Iran had seized the MSC Aries, a Portuguese-flagged, Israeli-linked container ship in the Gulf of Oman.