The Iran–U.S. confrontation has moved beyond the grey zone into a phase of controlled escalation. No longer a hypothetical conflict, it now unfolds through military pressure, economic leverage and strategic chokepoints like Hormuz and Suez. This is not full-scale war, but an unstable system where power, energy and global security are tightly interconnected.

Why Tehran and Jerusalem see each other as existential enemies in a regional system shaped by proxy wars, oil and power By Adelio Debenedetti, author of The Naacal Protocol – Code 211 A conflict that rarely appears as a direct war In global media, the confrontation between Iran and Israel is often portrayed as a sequence of isolated crises: missile exchanges, covert operations, assassinations, cyber attacks. Yet the real structure of the conflict is different. Iran and Israel