NEW: Iran Backs Down After US Warnings ... For Now

Iran not only has nuclear facilities and a military industry that the Israeli and Americans would like to strike, it also has a large oil industry and a series of dams that, if even partially damaged, could fatally impact the Iranian economy. 


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In another message, the Israelis and Americans said that if a strike on Israel or its assets abroad, that would be carried out by Iranian proxies and would result in severe damage and casualties, would prompt an appropriate retaliation against the proxies and Iran.  


Those messages, especially after they were also made publicly by senior American officials, have had an effect in Tehran, which once again hopes to avoid a regional war and an Israeli-American strike within its borders. 

Ed Morrissey

We'll see. Apparently the Biden statement rattled them, or so the thinking goes, because the US could easily facilitate an Israeli strike inside Iran that could fatally undermine the regime's projection of internal power. I doubt that the Iranians had planned for anything more than a propaganda win with a military strike anyway. 

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