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Is Iran's response a play or a show of force that profoundly alters the balance of terror in the Middle East?

On August 2, 1990, the second Gulf War broke out. Iraq, under its former President Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait, accused of seizing Iraqi oil. An international coalition led by the United States of America and made up of 38 countries was formed under the aegis of the United Nations, to carry out the "Desert Storm" military campaign (January 17 - February 28, 1991), which ended with the announcement of the liberation of Kuwait and the withdrawal of the Iraqi army. Bombing of occupied Palestinian territories As far as we were concerned, the Iraqi army, with the launch of Desert Storm, began bombing Israeli positions with Scud missiles. The Arab masses were delighted to see the Zionist entity targeted, despite the bitterness of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. At the time, Israel denied any material or human loss, which came as a shock to the Arab peoples. In 2021, 30 years later, the Israeli occupation army admitted that Scud missiles launched by Iraq (43 missiles) had killed 14