India, March 6 -- The conflict in West Asia entered its seventh day on Friday, with US-Israel pounding Iran's capital Tehran and other cities, as well as parts of Lebanon. Meanwhile, Iran launched retaliatory strikes on Gulf countries, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

With the confrontation now spreading, former R&AW Chief Vikram Sood on Friday said that the war between US-Israel and Iran may last longer than America had anticipated, ANI news agency reported.

Sood further said that Iranians were "willing to die" in the war, but the Americans "are not willing to die."

"It's difficult to say how long it will take, but I think it would last longer than what the Americans thought it would because they were hoping for a sh...