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Tehran early Saturday morning, after Israel carried out attacks on Iranian weapons factories overnight.
1 / 2Photo: Vahid Salemi/AP/TT
Israel’s attack on Iran last night is in line with expectations, believes Middle East expert Anders Persson.
– I don’t see this as an escalating response from Israel, he says.
Since Iran bombarded Israel with about 200 robots on October 1, the world has been waiting to see how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government would respond.
– This has taken longer than many observers thought, most did not think it would happen this close to the American presidential election, says Andersson Persson, political scientist at Linnaeus University.
He emphasizes that there were five possible types of targets for Israel: military infrastructure, financial infrastructure, oil infrastructure, infrastructure related to the nuclear program, and the Iranian leadership.
From the information that is currently available, it looks like Israel stuck to the military part, which according to Anders Persson is the most expected and least escalating.
– This is a marking rather than an escalation, he says, but adds that it is an initial assessment.