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On April 1, a drone attack, attributed to Israel, targeted the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Several senior military commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard died there. Tehran did not sit idly by. Two weeks later it launched more than 200 drones and missiles against Israeli territory. There were no fatalities and the launches were intercepted by the Iron Dome, the powerful Israeli anti-missile system. In turn, a subsequent drone attack on military facilities in Isfahan was attributed to Israel.
This exchange of attacks between the two powers of the Middle East put the planet on alert. And, although the dust seems to have calmed down, the historic tension between Israel and Iran has reached a peak never before reached, in a very unstable region where any miscalculation can be fatal.
But where does the enmity between Israel and Iran come from? What does the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have to do with this confrontation? What is the "shadow" war that both countries have been fighting for decades? What other actors come into play in the conflict? How do the two societies experience this confrontation? Are we closer to an all-out war in the Middle East?
For this chapter of 'Between borders' we have spoken with three experts: Javier Gil, researcher at the Culture and Society Institute of the University of Navarra; Sonia Sánchez, political scientist and professor of International Relations at the Francisco de Vitoria University; and with Ali Vaez, director of the Iran program at the international think tank Crisis Group.