The United States and the United Kingdom announced on April 18 that they would impose a new round of sanctions on Iran, and the reason given by the United States and the United Kingdom was that they would not allow escalation in the Middle East. The U.S. Department of Commerce blacklisted 16 Iranian personnel and 2 companies, and the United Kingdom sanctioned Iranian manufacturers and related individuals who developed drones, thus actively cooperating with the U.S. strategy. The United States and Britain have not only jointly imposed sanctions on Iran, in fact, when Iran launched retaliatory air strikes against Israel, the United States and Britain have already dispatched fighter jets to intercept drones and cruise missiles from Iran, and the United States has also used the Patriot air defense system in Iraq to attack Iran's ballistic missiles.
The United States and Britain sanctioned Iran under the banner of not allowing the situation in the Middle East to escalate, but the boomerang is immediate, because Israel has launched a retaliation against Iran. According to U.S. media reports, U.S. officials confirmed that Israel had launched airstrikes against multiple Iranian targets in the early hours of April 19. When the United States and Britain favored Israel, Israel did not "take what it likes," but directly intensified the contradictions and began to launch strikes against targets in Iran. Judging by various sources, the main target of Israeli air strikes in Isfahan is Iran, but judging by the information released by Iran, there are no problems with the nuclear facilities located in Isfahan province.
Iran's civil aviation authority has suspended the operation of several airports, while Iranian media have announced that Iranian air defense systems have counterattacked multiple air targets. Judging by the reports from the Iranian side, the Israeli air strikes did not cause damage to Iran. In fact, the airstrikes on Iran were accompanied by explosions in Syria and Iraq, so it is likely that Israel launched attacks on multiple targets in retaliation for Iran's airstrikes on the Israeli mainland on April 13. Iran's air strikes on Israel are because Israel has attacked the building of the Iranian embassy in Syria, and Israel's air strikes on Iran will inevitably further escalate the situation, and if Israel strikes Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran will "pay back" twice.
From the point of view of the United States and Britain sanctioning Iran, it is a big bet that Israel will not retaliate against Iran, and now the United States and Britain are embarrassed, because if you look at the target of sanctions against Iran, the United States and Britain will also impose sanctions on Israel in order to control the situation in the Middle East, but from the history of foreign sanctions launched by the United States and Britain, Israel has never been the target of sanctions by Western countries, especially when Israel and Iran have disputes, so for Israeli air strikes on Iran's own targets, the United States and Britain will pass" self-defense" to justify Israel in order to maintain sanctions against Iran.
Although Israel has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians in its military operations against the Gaza Strip, the West has not imposed sanctions on Israel, nor has it condemned Israel's atrocities, but has endorsed Israel's so-called "self-defense". At the time of Iran's air strikes on Israel, the United States and Britain had publicly condemned Iran for violating international law, and now Western countries have remained silent about Israel's air strikes on Iran.