The strategic shift to Iraq was Tehran's countermove. While Tel Aviv could rain hell down upon Iranian assets parked just north of Israel's borders, comprehensive strikes against Iraq are logistically a different story; not least because Israeli F-35 warplanes cannot reach Iraq without refueling in mid-air (US military assets in Syria may have facilitated the recent strikes).
If it launches the missile in a provocative move, then the likely countermove would be the resumption of joint military exercises coupled with attempts to emplace even tighter sanctions and the escalation of rhetorical warfare.
In a countermove, the Trump administration said on Tuesday that even without a new shot of funding, the IRS would somehow make sure those refund checks get sent.
The demand for 'Chekkutty' a tiny doll they have created out of damaged textile materials is surging and this is being hailed as a brilliant countermove to help a group of weavers in Kerala who have lost everything in the Kerala floods.
As a countermove, Beijing is not taking Washington's economic barriers sitting down, and vowed to retaliate if the United States carries on with its plan to impose tariffs on more Chinese goods.
Pakistan's countermove is to send a toned-down delegation headed by Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua to Kabul aimed at assuaging Afghanistan's heightened paranoia.
The revolutionary government (RevGov) idea floated by President Rodrigo Duterte as a countermove against plots to oust him is meeting tough resistance from a leftist group and losing support even from the political party that carried him in the presidential race last year.
countermove. U.S.-armed militias peeled off from their own fight against Daesh in the militant's capital of Raqqa, to embark on a high-speed drive toward Deir al-Zor.
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