Iran and Israel are targeting each other with missiles and air strikes after Israel launched its biggest-ever air offensive against its longtime foe in a bid to prevent it developing a nuclear weapon.

The attack gives Iranians a common cause, despite their feelings about their government . As the Stimson Center’s longtime Iran analyst Barbara Slavin notes: Iran can and like

Iran’s “Axis of Resistance,” the network of militias it has fostered in the Middle East to help it fight Israel, has become seriously degraded, experts say.