The war in the Middle East just got amped up another notch. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
Haniyeh’s assassination is a watershed event in the latest Israeli-Hamas War, which is now a regional Israeli-Iranian proxy war, since it greatly spikes the risk of everything spiraling into “mutually assured destruction”.
Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by Israel early Wednesday morning in the heart of the Iranian capital hours after attending President Masoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration. The details remain unclear, but it’s widely thought that he was killed by a precision drone strike at his residence. The world is watching to see whether Iran and/or its Resistance Axis allies will respond, what form it could take if so, and whether that would escalate tensions to a wider war. Here are five takeaways thus far:
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1. Israel’s Intelligence & Tactics Are Top-Notch
Israel somehow or another obtained accurate intelligence about Haniyeh’s location despite it being top-secret and was then able to successfully assassinate him. Whatever air defenses (including electronic warfare ones) that Iran had deployed in its capital as part of the security measures to protect its high-profile guests failed to thwart this attack. This is a major embarrassment for the Islamic Republic and prompts speculation about whether it was due to utter incompetence or was partially an inside job.
Feets on the ground intelligence?
Yes they can.
If the Iron Dome is vulnerable why wouldn’t Iranian airspace be the same?
Iran leader tweeted out that they will make the attacker regret it.
Playing right into their hands and WWIII will be the first with tweeters?
Subwoofers will boom at Megiddo… be there or be square.