Nearly a year after Palestinian militant group Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israel in its history on October 7, Israel announced it was shifting its focus to securing its border with Lebanon. As Iran’s supreme leader vows to fight Israel, alongside allies, defending his country’s missile strike on its arch-foe, FRANCE 24’s Oliver Farry is joined by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Australia’s leading researcher in Middle East and Islamic Studies, Research Professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics at Deakin University and Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum](http://www.mesf.org.au) (MESF).