Iran-Israel Conflict : What’s Happening and Why it Matters

The Iran-Israel Conflict is one of the most unpredictable and explosive international conflict in the region of Middle East, which erupted with the differences in the ideology, religious and strategy between these two nations. By the time of July 2025, this tension continues to influence various changes, threatening border areas. This conflict is having the potential to escalate into being turned into a larger conflict.

This rivalry stepped up after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, which established a religion based anti-Israel government. Iran’s support for some groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza threatened the existence of Israel in future. Following the fear, Israel has conducted secret operations, cyberattacks and airstrikes, mainly targetting Iran’s nuclear sites. Israel was feared with Iran’s nuclear ambitions and assumed it as a red line for their existence. Though Iran denied that any nuclear weapon is being made and statedthat its program if for peace. But after the collapse of JCPOA nuclear deal of 2015, doubts were sparked with Iran’s Uranium enrichment activities.

Current developments by both the sides have the condition of Middle East even worse. Israel claimed strikes on Iranian military targets in Syria and Iraq, in response to this groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, supported by Iran, have attacked Israel several times. In 2024, they exchanged missile and drone attacks causing several casualities near the border area. They are avoiding a proper war as it would cause massive destruction, but they kept on clashing through smaller battles. They were weren’t fought directly but through groups like Hezbollah and Hamas and through cyberattacks. United States, an ally of Israel, has asked both the nations to prevent all this and focus on becoming a peace loving developed nations.

But U.S.A.’s intervention was a pure cinema. When US Air Force and Navy attacked three nuclear sites of Iran on June 22, 2025 with their B2 bombers under the operation name Midnight Hammer, all the uranium was already transferred to some other site. After this event, When Iran attacked on US forces at Al Udeid Air Base on June 23, 2025 at Doha, Qatar, US forces were already evacuated from the Al Udeid Air Base before the Iranian attack. In both the attacks, there were no casualties and no loss of Uranium, only some damage to infrastructure and that’s it. Isn’t this shocking ?

The ordinary citizens living in places like Lebanon and Yemen are severely affected by this conflict as the Iran supported groups fight among themselves. Ordinary peoples along with their families have to suffer the most from violence and lost their homes. Global issues like higher oil prices, more refugees, etc raised too.

Without some legit talks between these two nations, it’s very hard to tackle this conflict and the danger of growing this conflict into a bigger one also persists. Not only the Middle East region but the whole world have to face its conseqeunces