Each day this week evidence mounted that the long-feared moment of escalation born out of the destabilising war in Gaza had arrived. Unlike Iraq, Pakistan was prepared to respond. But they at least blend, in part because they reveal a collective erosion of self-restraint and the rule of law. However, the former head of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign relations committee, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, told Iran Watch that the attacks were shocking and badly timed. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty ImagesHe said the true slope down to war remained in the Middle East, not on the Pakistan-Iran border.
