A few days ago, Iran launched a retaliatory strike against Israel, both in self-defense and in order to fulfill its own promises. Because it issued a warning to neighboring countries three days in advance to launch a strike on Israel within 72 hours.
It can be seen from this that Iran should be a gentleman, not to follow Japan's example of sneak attacks, but to retaliate openly. This is a self-confidence in one's own strength, and it is also an attempt to reduce Israel's war damage to a manageable range. Regardless of whether Israel is satisfied afterwards or not, the Iranian side has done its best anyway.
So Iran does not see Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as traitors to informing the United States of the timing of its retaliation, but perhaps a tacit understanding between Muslim brothers.
Israel, which has suffered a loss, also wants to show its ability to speak its mind, and yesterday the Israeli government threatened to retaliate against Iran within 24 hours. This time, the Americans were the first to come forward as witnesses: US officials confirmed that in the early morning of the 19th local time, Israel hit a target in Iran's Isfahan province with a missile, and southern Syria and Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, were also attacked by missiles at the same time.
In particular, it should be pointed out that the Israeli missile attack was very violent, and it directly threatened the flight safety of many civilian passenger planes, and had to make emergency evacuations.
Compared with the war damage that Israel has already suffered, Israel retaliated with only one target in Iran, which does mean a bit of a stop. If Iran no longer chooses to retaliate, it means that it is acting with the United States. And the United States has also publicly stated before that it allows Israel to choose Rafah as the target of retaliation.
Now that the ball is kicked at the feet of Iran, do you choose to go down and hit Israel again, or do you call your little brother to continue the fight?
And at this time, Egypt should also be in a hurry, because everyone knows that the real goal of Israel's attack on Rafah is to control the Sinai Peninsula and then directly control the Suez Canal. This is the second largest cheese in the Middle East after oil and gas resources, and it can even be said that "the one who gets the Suez Canal wins the world".
If it really wants to develop in this direction, then the two big brothers behind Iran will have to take action.