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Strategic Escalation and Nuclear Brinkmanship: The Intensifying Israel-Iran Confrontation

Complex Discovery

Editor’s Note: This narrative draws from the June 20, 2025, update by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Critical Threats Project, detailing the intensifying Israel-Iran conflict. It covers Israel’s precision strikes on Iranian military infrastructure and internal security networks, Iran’s use of cluster munitions in missile attacks on Israeli targets—including cyber-relevant facilities—and the ongoing diplomatic impasse over Iran’s nuclear