The US president is under immense pressure to hit back at Iranian-backed militias, but that would be a disaster<\/p>\n
The unprecedented Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on 7 October set a fuse burning under the entire Middle East. Now the fearsome, figurative mega-bomb to which that fuse is ultimately attached \u2013 direct conflict between the US and Iran \u2013 may be about to explode, with devastating consequences.<\/p>\n
With every day that Israel\u2019s illegal bombardment of Gaza continues, with every new estimate of the tens of thousands of Palestinian dead, a huge detonation edges closer. From the Red Sea to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, an escalating, four-month spiral of violence, principally involving pro-Palestinian, Iran-backed militias, has been inexorably building.<\/p>\n
Simon Tisdall is a foreign affairs commentator. He has been a foreign leader writer, foreign editor and US editor for the Guardian<\/p>\n
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