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By the weekend, it seemed temperatures were cooling. Iran and Israel had clashed in worrying, unprecedented fashion over the preceding week: Angry over an apparent Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria, the Islamic Republic launched hundreds of drones and missiles from Iranian soil last Saturday toward targets in Israel. The attack was mostly neutralized by Israel and its allies, but such a brazen assault meant the Israeli war cabinet felt compelled to retaliate.
