Middle East crisis: How might Iran strike back at Israel, and can a wider conflict be avoided?

Israel has attacked Iran's allies and assets throughout this war in Lebanon and Syria, but has not fully retaliated in response, but a direct attack on what it considers sovereign diplomatic territory, its embassy in Damascus on the first of April, is different from its supreme Leader Ayatollah Haman says Israel must be punished and will be if Iran does not retaliate, it will appear weak, but how will it do so? Can he avoid plunging the Middle East into an all-out war? His most obvious option is to use his representatives. These are the militias. finances trains and weapons and to some extent controls the Houthis in Yemen, for example, they have two ballistic missiles and three cruise missiles capable of reaching Israel and have been firing those missiles at Israel since October 7, but they are no match for they.

Israel's air defenses or there are militias in Iraq that have shorter range ballistic missiles like the Alaxa with a range of around 100 km. They have also been fired towards the lat in southern Israel, but again Israel's air defenses are difficult to overcome hisa in the south. Lebanon has the largest number of missiles, up to 150,000, some of them long-range and powerful such as the Kyar and Fata 100, but Iran is believed to want to keep that arsenal in reserve as insurance for the day when Israel can attack its alleged nuclear weapons. facilities, so Iran faces challenges using any of these groups, which is why some analysts suspect it will attack Israel directly.

It has an arsenal of long-range missiles and drones that it could deploy trying to

strike

targets from the heights of Goolan to Tel Aviv and military bases around the world. country, other options could include a cyberattack targeting an Israeli embassy or attacks on Israelis abroad, tourists or other people traveling outside of Israel. So far, Iran has shown restraint by avoiding a larger regional war, it does not have the military power to fight this man whatever. and his advisers are plotting that it is likely to be a well-calibrated retaliation, strong enough to respond to the attack on the embassy, ​​but not so strong as to lead to an all-out regional war, but with the American, Israeli and other armies in On high alert throughout the region, there is a real danger that what happens next will spiral out of control and plunge the Middle East into a devastating and escalating

conflict

.