Tehran has not issued a clear line regarding a warning or threat, nor has it outlined the next steps, Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports.
“This is because the decision-maker will be the Supreme National Security Council, and it’s clear that making a decision is a very complicated process,” Hashem says. “On one hand, Iran wants to retaliate, and on the other, it seeks to maintain a certain distance from the US.
“We must remember that Israel and Iran are both regional powers, while the US is a superpower with nuclear facilities and nuclear bombs,” he adds.
Hashem reports that Iran is “trying to impose a kind of deterrence, a balance of pain for pain, by daily launches”, with Iranian rockets hitting bases in different Israeli cities.
“The Iranian president spoke about how the Israelis dragged the US into this war, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that all the US bases are under observation, but neither gave a clear line on what the next step will be,” Hashem adds. “That is up to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, which will need to convene to make a decision.”
