Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles at military and intel targets across Israel on October 1 in response to a string of Israeli assassinations of senior Hamas, Hezbollah and IRGC leaders going back to July. Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed to make Iran “pay.” The IDF warned Saturday that its response will be “serious and significant.”
A “full-scale war” may be imminent in the Middle East if Israel doesn’t restrain its response to Tuesday’s Iranian missile strikes, former Obama administration secretary of defense and Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta has warned.“If it goes all out, then Iran is going to respond as well,” Panetta warned.Israel, the former official said, “has never been able to achieve militarily the goals that its been after,” and awareness of that fact “could impact future actions,” according to Panetta, who also served as White House chief of staff between 1994 and 1997 during the Clinton presidency.
