#IsraelIranConflict

The Conflict Resurfaces

After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iran took an anti-Israel stance and began supporting the Palestinian cause and armed groups in the Middle East to pressure Israel. This led to a proxy war when Iran supported militants from Palestine and Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War in 1982. Iran began to gain power and influence among other countries and groups. The conflict developed with Israeli attempts to stop the Iranian nuclear program and confrontations during the Syrian Civil War. This culminated in the Palestinian-Israeli war in Gaza that began in 2023, which extended the war in the region, as Iranian proxies began fighting Israel alongside Palestinian resistance, reaching the peak of the conflict. It became direct when Iran launched a massive aerial attack on Israel on April 13, 2024, the first of its kind that began the conflict and the largest of its type against Israel, in response to the latter's bombing of the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, in early April of the same year, to which Israel responded with a weak attack on Iran on April 19 of the same year.