The threat of an all-out war in the Middle East is intensifying.
Iranian-backed forces have launched a wave of attacks against American and Israeli targets in the region.
The White House accuses Tehran of provoking the crisis and prompting an American military response.
The Islamic mullahs in Tehran have dubbed it their “Axis of Resistance”.
“What the Supreme leader there calls a ‘ring of fire’ around Israel and that’s to build up these terror groups, these proxies for Iran, to do the fighting for Iran so Iran doesn’t have anybody come knocking on its doorstep,” said Richard Goldberg with the D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen have dramatically upped their strikes against Israel and U.S. interests in the region.
“Iran didn’t arm and equip and train and finance the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Shia militia groups in Iraq to use these resources for their own benefit at their own discretion. Iran did all that so it would have a capability through its proxies to act as it’s acting now,” said former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton.
The U.S. has been responding with attacks on the proxy militias.
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