While neither Israel nor Iran seek “total conflict,” attacks in the Middle East could spread across the region, CIA Director William Burns has warned. “We face the very real risk of a further regional escalation of conflict,” Burns said when asked about it at the conference. He said, according to CBS News, that Israel’s leadership is weighing very carefully how to respond to Iran’s ballistic missile attack last week, while warning that “miscalculations could lead to an unintended spiral of escalation.” “The Middle East is a place where complicated things happen all the time,” Burns said. He said a combination of enhanced intelligence sharing between the US and Israel and strong air defenses enabled the defeat of a large-scale missile attack by Iran on October 1. The attack revealed the limitations of Tehran’s military capabilities, but as the CIA director noted, “it does not mean that those capabilities are not enough […]
Source: News Beast
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