Direct U.S. Involvement in Middle East Conflict Fraught With Clash With Iran, Explain Experts

A direct military clash between the United States and Iran may be inevitable in case of Washington’s direct intervention on Israel’s side in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Dmitry Suslov, the deputy director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, explained. In his opinion, if a full-scale military conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah flares up, it will create risks of a further escalation of hostilities and even a direct military clash between the United States and Iran, because the latter “will not be sitting on its hands.” “The Israelis themselves…