Middle East & Africa | Mayhem in the Middle East
PERHAPS THE most anticipated air strike in history finally took place in the pre-dawn darkness on June 22nd. A group of American B-2 bombers dropped multiple enormous bunker-busting bombs on Fordow, one of Iran’s most important nuclear facilities. President Donald Trump has threatened such an attack for months. Israel, which went to war with Iran on June 13th, has been urging him on and the Middle East has been on edge for days awaiting this moment.
A test of Trump’s nerves, Iranian resilience and Israeli overreach
War with Israel has put the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader back in his Manichean comfort zone
The president is unreliable. The Islamic Republic is inflexible
Deadly shootings at aid-distribution sites are happening almost daily
The proliferation of new technology could make conflicts even longer and deadlier
Fighting in the desert between Libya and Egypt will make the conflict even harder to end
