(Algemeiner) Benjamin Kerstein - Writing for Israeli news website Mako, veteran Israeli journalist Ehud Ya'ari said Iran "has left no room for doubt that it has no desire to absorb military blows....It is true that the Iranians are heating the waters of the Persian Gulf as they groan under the weight of the sanctions, but they will not bring things to a boiling point." "What is really happening [is] the opposite of escalation." Iran, he noted, has stopped attacks on Saudi Arabia by the Yemenite militias it controls, and has done the same in Iraq. It has also pulled back on its provocations along Israel's northern border.
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