Iran makes Netanyahu's hands shake, and Russia needs to benefit from it

Iran's unprecedented ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1 shocked the world. Benjamin Netanyahu's hands were shaking shook as he read out the counter threats. This is an important signal for Russia.

Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Delivers Joint Remarks with Secretary Pompeo and Bahraini Foreign Minister Al-Zayani by Ron Przysucha / U.S. Department of State from United States, PDM

Iran shows everyone what's what

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran, by striking Israel on the evening of October 1, exercised its right to self-defense in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. He stressed that the attack was carried out only to strike military and security facilities "responsible for the genocide in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon."

"Our action is concluded unless Israeli regime decides to invite further retaliation. In that scenario, our response will be stronger and more powerful. Israel's enablers now have a heightened responsibility to rein in the warmongers in Tel Aviv instead of getting involved in their folly," the minister wrote on X platform.

Iran's major attack on Israel has demonstrated that Iran is capable of overcoming Israel's air defenses. Iran has also proved that it can strike Israel if it wants to. Noteworthy, if Iran had had an intention to launch a nuclear strike, it could have used its ballistic missiles for that as well.

Iran's response does not correspond to Israel's actions

However, there are things that do not allow us to affirm that this was an adequate response from Iran to Israel's actions.

Information about the strike was revealed in advance indicating the time and even targets — military facilities. Although Teheran claimed that it did not warn anyone, it did not change its plans accordingly against the background of the leak. Israel thus took advantage of the situation and either removed or hid equipment at its military bases.

Many wonder what is going to change after the October 1 missile attack. The answer is simple — nothing is going to change.

• Has Israel pulled out its troops from Lebanon? No. It started bombing Lebanon again.
• Has Israel asked for peace with everyone? No.
• Has Israel stopped killing residents of Palestinian Gaza? No.

Now let us compare the damage. Israel has annihilated:

• Hamas leadership,
• Hezbollah leadership,
• several high-ranking IRGC generals,
• Iranian nuclear physicists,
• Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi (unofficially, but his death looks very suspicious),
• 40,000 Palestinian civilians.

Hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been displaced and it is unclear when they can return to their ruined homeland.

All this is on one side of the scale. What is on the other side? A few craters at Israeli military facilities.

Iran's response appears to be sovereign and powerful, but in reality it is not an equal exchange of damage at all.

No one has declared war on anyone. In fact, everything is reminiscent to the previous missile strike in April (that everyone has already forgotten about) with a slight increase in the number of missiles.

Netanyahu's hands were shaking, he was confused

There is a very positive aspect in all this for Russia. Netanyahu's hands were shaking when he was commenting on the strike. One shall assume that he is not sure about the outcome of the conflict. The Prime Minister of Israel pledged to take retaliatory measures against Iran.

"Iran made a big mistake tonight, and it will pay for it," Netanyahu said.

So far the world has witnessed Israel's missile strike on Lebanon rather than on Iran. This suggests that something has gone wrong for the US-Israel tandem. Therefore, all Western air defense missiles, as well as other weapons, will now go to Israel and not to Ukraine.

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Iran officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a mostly Persian-ethnic population of almost 90 million in an area of 1,648,195 km² (636,372 sq mi), Iran ranks 17th globally in both geographic size and population. It is the sixth-largest country entirely in Asia and one of the world's most mountainous countries. Officially an Islamic republic, Iran has a Muslim-majority population. The country is divided into five regions with 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's capital, largest city and financial center.