Israeli-Iranian shadow war breaks into the open
On Saturday night, Iran launched its first-ever direct attack into Israel, firing off some 300 drones and missiles. While Israel says it intercepted some 99 per cent of them, shrapnel from one drone hit a seven-year-old girl, who as of this writing is in critical condition.
Iran\u2019s attack follows a major escalation by Israel earlier this month, when a strike at Iran\u2019s consulate in Syria killed 16 people, including a top commander of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Today, the Guardian\u2019s Julian Borger joins us to explain how these latest events have ratcheted up a long-simmering shadow war between the two powers \u2014 and the risk that they could bring the region into a much broader, and even more dangerous, conflict.