An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel April 14. Amir Cohen/Reuters/FileThe crash of a helicopter carrying Iran’s president and foreign minister comes at an especially fraught moment in the Middle East – and for Iran domestically. It has also brought a decades-long shadow war between Iran and Israel out into the open. Israel struck back a week later, according to US officials, hitting targets outside the Iranian city of Isfahan with a much smaller, calibrated response. Iranian authorities have since launched a widening crackdown on dissent in response to the protests.