Iran is currently a main supplier of Russia’s war machine against Ukraine. If they needed to, they could turn that against Israel. I suspect that Iran isn’t exactly hurting for weapons right now if they can be a major arms exporter.
But I’m sure Israel knows this and has something clever planned if this escalates.
They have a new Reformist president now, that along with softer domestic policies has been open about wanting better relations and his intent to avoid all-out war. I don’t know how much actual power he has, but apperently he has so far argued against more hardline wishes of retaliation of the Ayatollah and Revolutionary Guard.
Naturally, people of a certain mindset will interpret that as a sign of Irani weakness, true or not – which doesn’t exactly help in making international diplomacy evolve above school yard juvenility and macho posturing, but here we are.
It’s only a matter of time until we find out how the scales actually stand. Once there’s a volley of hypersonic missiles from Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran, we won’t know.
What tip in power? It has always been Israel, backed by the US, exerting its will on the Middle East through fear and force. It remains the same. Only this time Israel is waging a war to totally annihilate any opposition and as many bystanders as possible along the way.
What weakness?
They managed to take out Hezbollah leadership and now they want a ground invasion, which historically has been bad for Israel.
Israel is doing exactly what Iran wants and fighting its proxies instead of fighting them directly.
Doubt it. Iran would have to submit to Saudi regional influence for the power scales to tip, and that’s exceedingly unlikely to happen.
Articles painting Israel as relevant to this overarching Iran-Saudi Cold War are just unaware of the Middle East in general.
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Iran is currently a main supplier of Russia’s war machine against Ukraine. If they needed to, they could turn that against Israel. I suspect that Iran isn’t exactly hurting for weapons right now if they can be a major arms exporter.
But I’m sure Israel knows this and has something clever planned if this escalates.
They have a new Reformist president now, that along with softer domestic policies has been open about wanting better relations and his intent to avoid all-out war. I don’t know how much actual power he has, but apperently he has so far argued against more hardline wishes of retaliation of the Ayatollah and Revolutionary Guard.
Naturally, people of a certain mindset will interpret that as a sign of Irani weakness, true or not – which doesn’t exactly help in making international diplomacy evolve above school yard juvenility and macho posturing, but here we are.
It’s only a matter of time until we find out how the scales actually stand. Once there’s a volley of hypersonic missiles from Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran, we won’t know.
What tip in power? It has always been Israel, backed by the US, exerting its will on the Middle East through fear and force. It remains the same. Only this time Israel is waging a war to totally annihilate any opposition and as many bystanders as possible along the way.
What weakness?
They managed to take out Hezbollah leadership and now they want a ground invasion, which historically has been bad for Israel.
Israel is doing exactly what Iran wants and fighting its proxies instead of fighting them directly.
Doubt it. Iran would have to submit to Saudi regional influence for the power scales to tip, and that’s exceedingly unlikely to happen.
Articles painting Israel as relevant to this overarching Iran-Saudi Cold War are just unaware of the Middle East in general.