It is difficult to see how a cataclysmic war in the Middle East can be avoided at this point. The region was already teetering on the brink of disaster, and now the head of Hamas has been assassinated. It would be difficult to overstate the anger that the Islamic world is experiencing right now, and the Iranians are particularly mad because it happened on their territory. As you will see below, the Iranians are vowing that they will take revenge on Israel. If the Iranian response is too large, there is a risk that it could set off a series of events in the Middle East that nobody is going to be able to control.
What we just witnessed within a 24-hour period is truly unprecedented.
First, a key Hezbollah commander named Fuad Shukr that had been orchestrating terror attacks since the 1980s was taken out…
Israel says it has killed a top Hezbollah commander after carrying out an air strike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
The Israeli military says Fuad Shukr was the target of an “intelligence-based elimination”.
Then the entire world was absolutely shocked when the political leader of Hamas was assassinated in Tehran…
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran’s capital after attending the inauguration of the country’s new president, Iranian officials and the militant group said early Wednesday. Both blamed Israel for the strike that killed Haniyeh, and Iran’s foreign ministry said the U.S. bore responsibility for the killing as Israel’s biggest ally.
And now there are unconfirmed reports that a top figure in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been assassinated in Damascus…
In a dramatic turn of events, unconfirmed reports from Syria suggest that Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Forces, has been assassinated in an attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus. Hajizadeh, a key figure in the Iranian military hierarchy, was reportedly the senior commander behind the Iranian ballistic and cruise missile attacks against Israel in April.
According to journalist Levent Kamal, “There are unconfirmed reports from Syria that Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Aerospace Forces of the IRGC, was killed in an attack near the Syrian capital Damascus.”
This is essentially the equivalent of slamming a hornet’s nest with a baseball bat over and over again.
Hellbound and Down 