"Israel on High Alert: Anticipating Imminent Iranian Retaliation"

Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper predicts that Iran will retaliate against Israel for a recent missile strike in Damascus, Syria, likely on a limited scale to avoid wider conflict. Iran has reserved the right to respond decisively to the purported Israeli strike, which killed a senior IRGC commander and six other Iranian military advisers. The US fully supports Israel's defense against threats from Iran, and while US force posture in the Middle East has not changed, Israel has made operational changes and called up additional reservists to bolster its air defense systems on the northern border.