Right, so Israel struck Beirut's southern suburb after widening its attacks across Lebanon, Israeli-linked reporting framed it as a warning, an equation-setting attack, rather than some uniquely urgent assassination that could not wait all in defiance of that supposed ceasefire in place, things Israel never seems to trouble itself with anyway. And at this point, well, Iran then decided it had had enough.

Israel hit Beirut, and Iran fired back by dropping Israeli airbases into the middle of the story. That is the one outcome Netanyahu spent weeks trying to dodge, and he walked straight into it the moment he treated Dahiyeh like somewhere he could lob a warning shot. Iran launched missiles. The IRGC named Ramat David Airbase, and later Iranian claims named Nevatim and Tel Nof as well. So the answer to the obvious question is yes. Iran tied it ...