Iran’s government is extremely nervous and has been engaging in urgent diplomatic efforts with countries in the Middle East to gauge whether they can reduce the scale of Israel’s response to its missile attack earlier this month and – if that fails – help protect Tehran,

Hamas was in active coordination with Iran before, during and after the attack against Israel over the weekend, a senior Hamas official said. Ahmed Abdulhadi, Hamas's representative in Lebanon, said in response to a Newsweek question in an audio conversation on X that Hamas had also coordinated with Iran's Lebanese ally Hezbollah and with other factions of a so-called "Axis of Resistance" before the assault,

Israel’s defense minister warned on Wednesday that his country’s retaliation for a recent Iranian missile attack will be “lethal” and “surprising,” while the Israeli military pushed ahead with a large-scale operation in northern Gaza and a ground offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah militants.