The killing of a top Hamas leader in Lebanon and mysterious twin explosions in Iran heighten fears of a regional war that could draw in the United States.

American, Israeli and Lebanese officials insist that few parties want Israel’s war in Gaza to become a wider conflict that engulfs the Middle East.

But the assassination of a top leader of Hamas in Lebanon on Tuesday, and the deaths of scores of people in mysterious twin explosions in Iran on Wednesday, threatened to bring the Middle East — and the United States — closer to the brink of a regional war, which the Biden administration has tried to stave off since Hamas’s deadly attacks against Israel on Oct. 7.

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  • @EvergreenGuru
    12•11 months ago

    Israel clearly wants a regional war. Why else would they be committing all this violence and performing acts of terrorism in neighboring countries?

    • Guido Mancipioni
      -3•11 months ago

      Well the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Iran bombing soooo… There’s that.