The Medium Orient today it seems like one of those Chinese reels on Tik Tok in which buses and trucks move and cross each other on roads at the edge of ravines, with mastery and recklessness. The clearest words were written this morning by the Iranian ambassador Saeid Iravani to the president of the United Nations Security Council who will meet this evening at 10pm Italian time: “The issue can be considered closed like this, but if the Israeli regime makes a new mistake the response will be much harsher.”
Iran took revenge for the attack on Damascus in which seven of its senior officers lost their lives, and for the first time it took off its gloves in the creeping conflict that has pitted it against Israel, attacking firsthand without resorting to its allies from the Iraqi, Lebanese, Syrian and Yemeni militias. And now it's up to Israel: to respond or not? A person of little influence in this kind of issue like the Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar let slip a tempting thought: “Iran's attack gives us international legitimacy for a tougher response than ever”, and the reference to the bases of the phantom nuclear weapon of Tehran it's obvious.
We must imagine in these hours the White House committed to convincing Israel that stopping 99% of drones and missiles was a victory, and you can take it home, saving Biden the stumble of a conflict that spreads in the middle of the election campaign. Iran made a loud statement, it certainly warmed the hearts of the Arab streets, and embarrassed the whole region: Jordan, whose fighters took off to shoot down the drones, Egypt which says it is worried but does not openly condemn Tehran, Saudi Arabia, which remains silent.
Beating his fists on his chest like an aggressive gorilla, Iran earned the medal of enemy no. 1 of Israel, as the leader of that “Palestine from the river to the sea” which is the chorus of the Arab square, and sometimes also of the Western one, leaving the emirates and monarchies and Sunni regimes the thankless role of collaborators and unworthy guardians of the sacred places . Whether he dared to do so because he already possessed nuclear weapons is a disturbing question. But what has happened is already an atomic flash, which whitens everything that was there before: the 34,000 deaths in Gaza, the dissent against Netanyahu, the university boycotts, the common European defense, the debate on Zionism, the hostages and the negotiations .
Israel should settle, says Biden. If it goes like this, Iran will also be satisfied, as it cannot fail to take into account the very prudent words of China and the prudent words of Russia. The old rogue state has caught up a regional power status to be proud of, is no longer a stone guest. If he can show himself responsible, the work is complete. His weakness, rather, is internal, where half of the citizens hope for a war against Israel only as an opportunity to see the theocracy collapse.
The rest is the usual balance sheet: oil and gold growing, queues at Iranian petrol stations and Israeli markets, and a seven-year-old girl seriously injured in the Negev. She was Bedouin, and she grew up in the wrong place, at the wrong time, on the edge of the ravine.
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