{"id":239914,"date":"2024-10-27T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/27\/the-ball-is-in-irans-court-after-us-pressure-pays-off\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T05:03:08","slug":"the-ball-is-in-irans-court-after-us-pressure-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/27\/the-ball-is-in-irans-court-after-us-pressure-pays-off\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0The ball is in Iran&#8217;s court after US pressure pays off"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                       \n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happens next in the escalating but sporadic\u00a0missile slugfest between Israel and Iran\u00a0may depend a lot on who wins the US election 10 days from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the dust settles in Iran, early indications are US diplomacy has, for now, headed off fears of tit-for-tat retaliation. A regional source speaking on condition of anonymity, who quickly and accurately predicted Iran wouldn\u2019t respond to Israel\u2019s last strike on the country in April, tells CNN Iran will \u201ccontain\u201d this strike, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israelis are divided over the mission, which could make follow-up strikes safer but didn\u2019t hit Iran\u2019s nuclear or oil sites. Where they agree is that the dialing down of the target list is a\u00a0result of US pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Iran\u2019s\u00a0ballistic missile barrage\u00a0striking Israeli military targets almost a month ago, US President Joe Biden had\u00a0called for a \u201cproportional\u201d response. If Biden\u2019s intervention has paid off, it is perhaps the clearest indicator in over a year of war that the White House maintains some influence over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes following a mostly futile \u2014 or at best very limited \u2014 success in convincing Netanyahu to ease the\u00a0suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, where over 42,000 have been killed as the Israeli military wages war against Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is no secret Netanyahu prefers former President Donald Trump, an Iran hawk, over Vice President Kamala Harris in the coming election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How the Israeli prime minister plans to prosecute and eventually land his\u00a0deadly conflicts with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran\u00a0could depend on what he hears from the White House. What we may have witnessed last night is a place-holding strike by Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ball for now, though, is firmly in Iran\u2019s court.<\/p>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens next in the escalating but sporadic\u00a0missile slugfest between Israel and Iran\u00a0may depend a lot on who wins the US election 10 days from now. As the dust settles in Iran, early indications are US diplomacy has, for now, headed off fears of tit-for-tat retaliation. 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