Iran has come out of the shadows and attacked Israel directly. **Read OP before posting**

And this

They need to show their hardliners they will do something, but know they can be flattened. Maybe some NK style bombing of the sea?

This source has been reliable in the past

Another night and Iran did nothing. They must be trying to troll Israel at this stage or are unsure if they should proceed with their 'revenge'

Iran knew from the last time the US would do this. So why didn't they attack within in a day or two. It's all part of a strategy to make the Israelis sweat but at the same time avoid an all out war when they do eventually attack.

Hopefully the back room diplomacy is making progress to prevent a large regional war.

Iran has no real winning move , do nothing kind of looks week but their leaders must know they would be the first to be targeted and taken out directly if there was a serious attack on Israel

It's hard to avoid the feeling that the Israeli government isn't doing everything it can to provoke an attack by Iran. It's easy taunt when you have the U.S. behind you. Frightening to think that the self styled greatest democracy in the world is backing a despotic regime to the hilt.

I have been going back and forth in my mind as to whether Iran will attack Israel. I think on the balance of probability they will. Seyed Mohamed Marandi is usually a good source inside Iran of what's going on there and he's convinced they will strike and strike hard in pursuit of deterrence against further Israeli action. 

I don't see that logic as working as Israel will not let an Iranian strike go unanswered and the Iranians know this. They don't want war yet feel obliged to defend their honour. I really hope Netanyahu and his despotic regime are removed. It may not fix things in Israel completely but it would be a start. The ultimate answer is a Palestinian state from the river to the sea.

Yes but when you have the strongest army in the world you can behave like so.

That’s just the way it is. Until a better choice offers itself up we are where we are.

Who would you rather keep some sort of world order and world peace?

Russia, China?

At a guess you would have to assume they are taking advice from China and Russia too so there is going to be a certain "long game" being encouraged, building up alliances between Shia and Sunni perhaps a thing not conceivable in the past.

Could be soon according to Israeli intelligence

I wasn't able to see some of the latest posts until tonight. This has been happening on a couple of other threads too. Is anyone else having this issue?

Hezbollah reported to be attacking an Israeli military base in the north now. Iron dome not operating (suspiciously to say the least) so they are freely hitting the base.

And we'll find out about by tea time tomorrow on boards, as soon as it glitches again!