CNN —Henry Kissinger once observed that Iranian leaders must decide if Iran is a cause or a nation.
But neither Iran nor Hezbollah seems to have had a plan for what to do following Hamas’s massacres last month in Israel.
On Friday, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, spoke publicly for the first time about the war in Gaza.
For the moment, both Hezbollah and Israel are exchanging tit-for-tat fire along Israel’s northern border that falls short of anything close to a full-blown war.
The Iranians, in short, have enough problems of their own not to start a shooting war with Israel backed by its American ally.
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