As reported on Wednesday by the Iran InternationalIranian President Pezeshkian reportedly recommended to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali KhameneiOf think carefully before giving the order to attack Israel because an Israeli retaliation could cripple Iran’s economy and infrastructure. Even lead to the collapse of the country.
Then, in fact, we entered into what can easily be defined as a nerve-wracking wait. Before acting, Israel waits for events because at the moment, in this game of nerves, the ball is in Iran’s court. It was Iran, in fact, that surrounded the Jewish State with its near and far neighbors and while the far ones, the Yemeni Houthis, have already suffered a heavy reaction to the launching of hundreds of missiles towards the Jewish State, the neighbors, Lebanese Hezbollah continues to launch missiles and drones towards the north of Israel without forcing the issue too much and undergoing the reactions which at the moment are limited and surgical.
The images from the burning port city of Al Hudaydah have gone around the world, especially the Arab world, and even Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, is aware that it would be difficult for him to explain to the Lebanese the results of an upcoming open war against Israel, if he were to manage to get out of this war alive. It can also be assumed that, ironically in Tehran, the great leaders of the Islamic revolution fear targeted eliminations more than the great bombings.
If it had really been the hand of Israel that killed Isma’il Haniyeh, the good face of Hamas, inside a super-controlled compound, the Jewish State would have demonstrated that it could reach, almost without a shot being fired, directly to the top of the theocracy. Khamenei probably understood this. and Pezeshkian is probably doing everything he can to remind him. After all, it’s always better to lose face than your head.
Proof of this newfound caution was seen in seeing Ayatollah Seyyed ʿAlī Ḥoseynī Khameneī, the supreme leader of Iran, who during the funeral of Isma’il Haniyeh in Tehran, looked at the sky with a fearful expression. This was a sign of the awareness of being in the crosshairs. Also Esmail Qaanicommander of the Quds Force, wore a woman’s veil on her head at the same funeral so as not to be recognized from above.
Even if the new Iranian president Pezeshkian is right, he only said half the truth, that a powerful Israeli reaction could bring Iran’s economy and infrastructure to its knees. What he did not say, but which is much more important, is that seeing the dictatorship waver, The people of Iran could use the moment to take back that freedom that has been missing in that region for too long. And if the dictatorship were to falter, no one, not even the most aggressive Pasdaran, could stop the desire to live of young Iranians.
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