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Falling Into the Abyss?

If it’s not one thing, it’s another. In the midst of the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, a new round of conflict has erupted between Iran and Israel.

On April 14, tensions intensified after Iran launched retaliatory strikes on Israel in response to Israel’s bombing of an Iranian diplomatic building in Syria’s capital Damascus on April 1, which killed at least one senior figure in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and six other officers as well as six Syrians.

According to the Associated Press, Israel has vowed to retaliate against Iran, risking further expansion of

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