House "Squad" members are criticizing Israel's military action against Iran as U.S. officials warn Tehran not to respond to what Israel described as a preemptive strike.

Israel has long fought a shadow war with Iran while avoiding all-out conflict. Now Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is risking it all in pursuit of a conclusive victory.

Israel felt emboldened to attack because most of Iran’s allies in the region, such as the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and other forces in Palestine, Syria and Iraq, who could hit Western targets, are at their lowest ebb, degraded by years of Israeli attacks. Such has never been the case before. And it certainly caught the Iranian regime off-guard.