[HIGHLIGHTS] Israel wants retaliation: What an attack on Iran could look like

After Iran's attack on Israel, experts expect a retaliatory strike. The international community warns of wildfire.

Israel is actually technically and militarily superior to Iran. However, it is not in Israel's interest to start a regional war with Iran. The main aim of the firing of 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles and 120 ballistic missiles over the weekend was to break through Israel's air and missile defenses and find a weak point. Other options: cyber attacks or attacks on high-ranking military and nuclear experts. “If Israel reacts very strongly, we will probably end up in a situation of escalation that could become widespread,” fears Meir Litvak from the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University. In addition, Menahem Merhavy, an Iran expert at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, pointed out that the Iranian attack appeared to have been designed to avoid “a large number of casualties on the Israeli side.” On Monday (April 15), Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) appealed to Israel to “contribute to the deescalation of the situation in the Middle East”