A single glance at the map of the Middle East is enough to realize Jordan’s awkward position.
By BBC World
This small Arab country is located on the route between Israel and Iran, two powers that hate each other and immersed in an escalation that threatens to provoke an open war in that region of the world.
The fight between the two has placed Amman in a devilish dilemma that has made evident the complex political and strategic balances in which a country that does not usually attract the attention of the world media has been managed for decades.
It did so last Saturday, when a rain of drones and missiles launched by Iran and its related militias was heading towards Israel to make it pay for the attack that destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus and cost the lives of several of its generals.
The Jordanian air forces launched to intercept the projectiles, in a decisive action to neutralize Tehran’s blow against Israel. It was the only Arab country to do so.
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