New Delhi, March 7 -- This week the focus is on the widening war in West Asia, which matters to us as there are 9-10 million Indian expatriates in the region.

It's now day 7 of Operation Epic Fury, launched jointly by the US and Israel on 28 February. It's what we were all warned about for years, perhaps even decades - a conflagration in West Asia. As it stood, Iran was at its weakest in decades and Israel perhaps saw it as too good an opportunity to pass up. TheWashington Post reported how Israel and Saudi Arabia pushed US President Donald Trump to launch the campaign despite the US being unsure that Iran posed an imminent threat.

Here's what we know. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed on 28 February. If the US was...