Shahram Akbarzadeh, the director of the Middle East Studies Forum at Deakin University in Australia, says there is a “very real concern” of regional war following the US strikes.
He told Al Jazeera that while Iran has made it clear that it has a right to respond, its allies in the region may not wait for official orders.
“There are so many Iranian allies and proxies in the region who may not wait for an attack order from Tehran, who may take it upon themselves to hit at US assets in the region,” he said.
“And there are plenty of US assets in region.”
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