'We have woken up to a new paradigm in the Middle East' following Iran-Israel escalation, analyst says
Iran's weekend attack on Israel marks a "new paradigm" in the Middle East conflict, which risks escalating into a wider regional war, Chatham House's Middle East director said Monday. Sanam Vakil at the London-based thinktank said it was a matter of when and not if Israel would respond after its war cabinet vowed on Sunday to "exact a price" against Tehran for its overnight aerial assault on the Jewish state. "The Israeli leadership will have a hard time not responding. They may not do it immediately, but I think a confrontation between Israel and Iran — which might be priced into the markets — is certainly coming, it's just a question of when," Vakil told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" Monday. Iran launched more than 300 drones and miss