Jordan struggles to stay out of the Middle East’s increasingly precarious fray

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Iran, Hezbollah, and Israel have successfully evaded an all-out Middle Eastern conflagration more than a month after Israel killed a senior Hamas official in Tehran and a military commander of the Lebanese Shiite militia in Beirut.

The question is how much longer they can hold the line.