Middle East tensions
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Middle East tensions are high when three explosions were heard northeast of Iran's central Isfahan province on Friday. This comes as Israel is under pressure to think twice before striking back at Iran over the missile and drone attack on April 13. The ongoing situation is an apparent spillover of the ongoing six-month old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Many fear the Middle East is now sitting on a powder keg, on the slippery slope of a wider conflict. What can pull the situation from the brink? And, what will it take to broker a ceasefire?
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