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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalvinder45" data-source="post: 225865" data-attributes="member: 26009">As Israel has opened many fronts including Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yamen with active support from US and Europe   things appear to be going out of its hands with unexpected losses  from retaliatory engagements by Lebanon, Iran, Hamas and Yemen. A Wider War in the Middle East, From Hamas to Hezbollah and Now Iran may further escalate. The main questions now are how much the conflict will escalate and whether the United States will get more directly involved in the defense of Israel. With threats from Russia and China of uncontrolable consequences too has worried US, West and Israel.Hezbollah says it killed 17 Israeli soldiers in clashes along the border, after earlier announcing it had detonated a bomb against troops attempting to enter the village of Maroun al-Ras.An Israeli air strike targeted a residential apartment in the Chiya neighbourhood of the Lebanese capital, after strikes last night on central and southern Beirut killed at least nine people.In the occupied West Bank, Israeli fighter planes have killed at least 18 people in a strike on a crowded cafe in Tulkarem refugee camp.Iran sent a message to the US via Qatar saying that it does not seek regional war but adding that “the phase of unilateral self-restraint has ended”. It also warned that any Israeli attack would be met with an “unconventional response” that includes targeting Israeli infrastructure.Israel intensifies attacks on Gaza, killing dozens of Palestinians in separate strikes over the past 48 hours.In Gaza, at least 41,788 people have been killed and 96,794 injured in Israelis attacks since October 2023. In Israel, at least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 people were taken captive.Iran has unleashed its largest ever attack on Israel, firing 180 ballistic missiles late Tuesday most of which were apparently intercepted by anti-missile defenses employed by Israel, the United States and Jordan, according to those countries’ governments.The aerial assault, far more serious than a similar strike in April, has raised the stakes in what is already an extremely tense moment across the Middle East as a dangerous regional conflict spirals.Here’s a look at Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities and the defensive systems employed by Israeli and other forces in the region.Tehran has thousands of ballistic and cruise missiles with a variety of ranges, according to a 2021 report from the Missile Threat Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).Exact numbers for each type of missile are unknown. But US Air Force Gen. Kenneth McKenzie told Congress in 2023 that Iran had “over 3,000” ballistic missiles, according to a report this year from the Iran Watch website at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.Ballistic missiles’ trajectories carry them outside or near the limits of Earth’s atmosphere, before the warhead payload separates from the rocket that carried it aloft and plunges back into the atmosphere and onto its target.</blockquote>

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