The US and Arab nation’s are working to hold back any MAJOR response from Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran to the Israeli’s taking out senior Hamas and Hezbollah figures….
The new Iran President makes ckeaer he does NOT want a ALL out Middle East War and there HAS NOT been any crazy stuff up till now,,,,
Iran has closed it’s airspace to foreign aircraft….
Israeli and Lebanese commerical flights have been cut back by air carriers….
The latest tensions between Israel and Iran have put Jordan in a particularly challenging position. While it maintains a strong relationship with the United States and close security coordination with Israel, Jordan also has millions of citizens of Palestinian origin, including many who fiercely oppose aiding Israel in any form.
“Jordan has to strike a very delicate balance,” said Saud al-Sharafat, a former brigadier general in Jordan’s intelligence service. “It’s like walking on a tightrope.”
Last week, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that avenging Mr. Haniyeh’s death was “our duty” because he had been killed on Iranian soil. He promised to deliver “a severe punishment.”
Countries farther from Israel have also been urging Iran to refrain from escalating regional tensions.
In a phone call on Monday, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, told Antony J. Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, that he had spoken to Ali Bagheri Kani, the Iranian foreign minister, about the need for restraint, according to an official familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy.
The Qatari prime minister also informed Mr. Blinken that Qatar had given a similar message to Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militia that has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces along the Lebanon-Israel border, the official said. Hezbollah says it is fighting there in support of Hamas in Gaza. Both groups are backed by Iran…..
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Turkey asked on Wednesday to join South Africa’s genocide caseagainst Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this week. In an initial ruling on the genocide case in January, the court ordered Israel to restrain its attacks in Gaza, and in May it ordered the country to immediately halt its military offensive in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. Israeli officials have strongly denied the genocide accusation and denounced the provisional measures. Several other countries have said they would file arguments in the case.
The Israeli military ordered Palestinians on Wednesday to leave several neighborhoods in northern Gaza and move south into Gaza City, warning shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning that it was preparing to take “immediate” and “forceful” action against Hamas and other militants who it said fired rockets toward Israel. The new evacuation orders were issued for areas near Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, which have been decimated by repeated Israeli bombardment. Later on Wednesday, the Israeli military urged displaced Palestinians to move even further south into central Gaza, including into Deir al Balah.
Amid a flurry of international diplomatic activity to avert a wider war in the Middle East, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke to Iran’s new president, Massoud Pezeshkian, on Wednesday, according to a statement from Mr. Macron’s office. France’s leader called on Mr. Pezeshkian “to do everything in his power to avoid a new military escalation, which would be in nobody’s interest, including Iran’s,” the statement said. It added that Mr. Macron was sending the same message to all actors in the region that he was in contact with and reiterated France’s support for “an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and a firm refusal of any escalation with Lebanon.”
The Iranian authorities issued an advisory on Wednesday to all civil airlines not to fly over its airspace, according to Egyptian state media. The report attributed the advisory to military drills on Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning. Still, the warning came as the Middle East was bracing for a potential Iranian attack in response to the assassination of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week. It also came as airlines around the world, including United and Delta, have suspended some flights to the region amid fears of wider war…..
Aug 7, 2024 – ISW Press
Acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani defended Iran’s impending retaliatory strike against Israel while signaling that Iran seeks to avoid a regional war during an Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on August 7. Bagheri Kani argued that Iran “has no choice” but to exercise its right to self-defense and restore deterrence against Israel.