Iran’s April 14 retaliation for Israel’s bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus was both dramatic and anticlimactic. The buildup was worthy of an Oscar, beginning with grainy images of drones flying out of Iran and toward Israel, followed by missiles. The Iranian operation brought the decades-long shadow war between the two countries out into the open. It also apparently set new rules of engagement between Iran and Israel. Hossein Salami, the commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told Iranian television that Iran had put in place what he called “a new equation.” Salami declared, ... (full story)