As Israel prepares more waves of attacks on Iran that Donald Trump warned would be “even more brutal”, the Islamic Republic’s leaders have vowed to retaliate.
Major General Mohammad Pakpour, Iran’s commander of the Revolutionary Guards, who took office on Friday hours after the assassination of his predecessor, vowed to “open the doors of hell”.
But what can Iran do to significantly deter Israel? Tehran — strangled by years of sanctions, and with its main Shia proxies in the region severely weakened — stands in what it sees as an existential battle against a regional power buoyed by the latest western military kit and ample US support.
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