Tense calm in Iran and Israel after the exchange of attacks in recent days. The contained response from Tel Aviv to the first direct attack from Tehran against their territory, perpetrated with drones and missiles last Saturday and which in turn was a retaliation for the bombing of his consulate in Damascus, appears to have put an end, at least for the moment, to the escalation of recent weeks, returning both parties to the fate of ‘shadow war’ that maintained for years.

The Jewish State, in fact, has not claimed responsibility for the attack launched early Friday with drones against the surroundings of the Iranian city of Isfahan – which houses nuclear facilities -, which in turn Iran has downplayedthus removing the fear of an open regional war, although without dissipating the tension.

In this sense, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian, described in the last hours as “child’s play” Israeli action and defined the attack launched by Iran a week ago as “a warning.” “If Israel wants to do another adventurism and act against Iran’s interests, our next response will be immediate and at the highest level,” she warned, however, warning that “they will regret“.

The Iranian Army already hinted this Friday that it would not respond to the attack, which would not have caused damage. A senior official assured Reuters that there was no “no plan for immediate retaliation”.

For the analyst Jesus Nunez Villaverdethe Israeli response to Iran’s offensive “has been reduced to a minimum“, while Tehran downplays the importance of the attack, since “the important thing for them is not to escalate” and “not to provoke again a response that leads to an open regional war.” This was indicated on Friday in Al Rojo Vivo, predicting however that “the response will continue to occur“, because even before the current escalation “the actions and reactions” of both “have been occurring for years.”

In his opinion, it is to be expected that there will be an “armed reaction on the part of Iran”, but it is unlikely that it will be greater than that of last weekend, “which could end up provoking an open regional war”: “All the messages that is sending Iran right now would go in that direction and it would seem for once that Israel has understood that right now It is not in your best interest to provoke an escalation“said the expert.

Thus, cross attacks allow both parties save appearances without going into a total explosion in the region, although the most radical sector of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government demanded a forceful reaction to the barrage of missiles launched last week by Tehran. The far-right minister Ben Gvir published on his social networks the word “scarecrow”, “weak”, in Hebrew slang, after having previously requested that the Israeli response not be so.

The massacre continues in Gaza

Meanwhile, and although the ‘tit for tat’ of Israel and Iran has diverted the focus from Gaza in recent days, the massacre continues in the Strip, where the fatalities of the Israeli offensive already exceed 34,000 since October 7. There, at least seven Palestinians have died in recent hours in an Israeli bombing of a home in Rafah, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.