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Iran faces risks of escalation or looking weak as war with Israel deepens

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Iran 's supreme leader must decide on the least bad of a series of difficult choices.

At one end of the spectrum is hitting back with another wave of missiles.

At the other is deciding to draw a line under the destructive exchanges of direct strikes on their respective territories.

The risk for Iran if it holds its fire is that looks weak, intimidated and deterred by Israel ’s military power.

Since the summer , Israel has repeatedly escalated the war with Iran and its axis of allies and proxies.

The biggest blows landed in a major offensive against Iran ’s most important ally, Hezbollah in Lebanon .

Iran concluded it had to hit back and responded with a much bigger ballistic missile attack on Israel on 1 October .

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