The exchanges between Israel and Iran are part of a wider escalation since the war in Gaza began last year, but the two nations' enmity stretches back decades, through a history of shadow wars and clandestine attacks by land, sea, air and cyberspace.
Israel launched a strike on Iran ian soil this morning, sources said, in the latest of the tit-for-tat exchanges between the regional arch foes whose long-running shadow war has broken into the open.
The exchanges are part of a wider escalation since the war in Gaza began last year, but the two nations' enmity stretches back decades, through a history of shadow wars and clandestine attacks by land, sea, air and cyberspace. 1992-94 Argentina and Israel accuse Iran and Hezbollah of being behind suicide bombings on Israel's embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992 and a Jewish centre in the city in 1994, each of which killed dozens of people.2002 Revelation that Iran has a secret uranium enrichment programme prompts concern that it is trying to build a nuclear weapon, which it denies.2006 Israel fights Hezbollah in a month-long war in Lebanon but is unable to crush the heavily armed group.
In May Israel says it had struck Iranian military infrastructure in Syria - where Tehran was backing President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war - after Iranian forces there fired rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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