Israel’s retaliation attack on Iran has pushed the world to the brink of WW3 according to a range of conflict experts.
Shadowy Iranian backed proxy forces are now said to be “primed and ready” to invade Gaza and ramp up the war in the Middle East to a whole new level.
The Israeli missile hit Iran early on Friday morning, according to US officials, and blasts were heard in the central province of Isfahan, which is home to nuclear facilities, a large airbase and a major missile production complex.
Now Middle East analysts said that as a result of the retaliation from Israel we could see a fresh war in Gaza or even a worldwide conflict.
Intelligence expert Professor Anthony Glees said that “Iranian backed Hezbollah forces are said to be primed and ready to go” in northern Gaza, reports the Sun.
He warned that if Israel does target Iranian nuclear power plants Iran could send Hezbollah into the trenches on its behalf.
And Professor Glees added that such a strike “would radically increase the chances of a wider war in the Middle East and even a Third World War”.
Former British tank commander and military expert Hamish de-Bretton Gordon believes that Friday’s strike by Israel could send Iran to rely on its proxies that have been hidden.
He said: “Israel has got its hand around Iran’s neck, squeezing it tight enough and Iran knows that the only way to get that strangle hold off is to cease conventionally trying to attack Israel, go back to the shadows,” reports The Sun.
He added: “They are over-matched in every area. The only way they can progress is how they’ve been doing it for the last 10 or 20 years, through their terror groups and through their proxies.”
Just hours before the explosions were heard on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told CNN that Iran’s response if Israel took any further military action against it would be “immediate and at a maximum level”.
“In case the Israeli regime embarks on adventurism again and takes action against the interests of Iran, the next response from us will be immediate and at a maximum level,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
It comes after Iran launched a drone attack on Israel which the UK helped intercept.
Israel had told the US on Thursday it would be retaliating against Iran in the coming days, a senior US official said, stating: “We didn’t endorse the response.”
Tyler Mitchell