Iran attacked Israel to show militia groups they were prepared to ‘put some skin in the game’

The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says Iran “needed to show their militia groups” they were prepared to “put some skin in the game”. There are growing calls for restraint as the world reacts to Iran’s aerial bombardment of Israel. It is Tehran’s first-ever direct attack on its neighbour. Israel says more than 300 missiles and drones were fired by Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, but most were intercepted before entering Israeli airspace. “They [Iran] certainly calibrated this strike … they gave everyone notice,” Mr Sheridan told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “But I’m sure they thought that some more would get through than did get through. “I think they needed to show their militia groups that they, themselves, the Iranians, were prepared to put some skin in the game.”