Let's be clear: this isn't a simple case of real power struggle games. Iran has been fighting a shadow war against Israel for years, arming and bankrolling groups like Hezbollah and Hamas with one goal in mind: destruction of Israel. Iran has been developing its nuclear program, and everybody knows what for—to become a nuclear power. They’re arming themselves with means that would kill millions of people. But Israel? They’re not sitting idle. Ever since Israel has gradually eliminated Iran from across the region—through sabotage, electronic warfare that released the Stuxnet virus into Iranian computer networks, or through air strikes on Iranian-supplied and trained military targets in Syria. This is no longer the African fight now. It remains to be noted that we are standing on the brink of a world catastrophe. Wake up, folks, before it is too late.

Iran has been engaged in a low-intensity conflict against Israel covertly. They’ve been supplying weapons, money, and training to these groups with one singular aim: to wipe Israel off the map. And, seriously, let’s call it like it is: Iran has no interest in “peaceful energy,” at least not in what they’re developing here. It is about creating equipment that, if used, would destroy millions of citizens of Israel and many others from other countries.

Meanwhile, Israel is not spectating and waiting for something to happen. They have launched hundreds, if not thousands, of attacks against Iranian military targets inside Syria and elsewhere and have methodically dismantled Iran’s regional power slowly but surely, piece by piece. Starting from the cyberwar in which the Stuxnet worm targeted Iranian nuclear plants to bombing various Iranian military installations, Israel has been attacking Iran—but here we are not naïve.

Enough with the bullshit—what we have here is an escalation of warfare to almost total confrontation. I’ll start with the basics, and on October 1, Iran fired over 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. Let that absorb in your minds 180 missiles! This, without the provocation, isn’t some sort of pinprick; it is: This is a real ground-shifting, full-blown conflict in the Middle East’s already unstable balance. Israel didn’t take it without reciprocation; they retaliated with unimaginable attacks on the Iranians’ assets in Syria and Lebanon, and they have signalled—they are willing to attack even more.