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December 27, 2023

To Restore Deterrence, Israel May Need to Bring the Fight to Iran’s Borders

The war between the wars is now simply the war.

In airstrikes near Damascus on Monday, the IDF reportedly killed the Iranian brigadier general Razi Mousavi. Jerusalem, per its usual policy, did not take credit for the attack, and on its surface it looked a lot like hundreds of other pinpointed strikes against Tehran-linked targets in Syria since 2011. But in the context of the Gaza war, and escalation on the Lebanese border and in the Red Sea, Yoav Limor sees the killing of Mousavi as a clear message to the Islamic Republic.

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