Iranian Foreign & Resistance Front Strategy & Operations
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They can have elections for the selection of Head of Union.
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
Hamas is responsible for that mistake. They can't declare all out war on Israel without telling anyone and expect Hezbollah to sacrifice Lebanon and IRI to sacrifice Iran in support of their total war on Hamas' timing
The Palestinians fought at 400%, Israel fought at 200% and Iran fought at 50% capacity. Attack is the best defense.
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
Yemen has fired 19 ballistic missiles at Israel since 18 March
no impacts recorded but they have forced Israel to use 15-20 Arrow-3 interceptors (+ THAAD interceptors)
no impacts recorded but they have forced Israel to use 15-20 Arrow-3 interceptors (+ THAAD interceptors)
ShapurII
Trusted Member
Hamas didn't even bother to give us a heads-up for such a huge plan.
I still maintain that it was all coordinated by Qatar and possibly Turkey against Iran's interests. Hezbollah lost a lot in this fight. Syria was lost. The so called "axis of resistance" is in a much weaker position than it used to be before October 7th.
And Arabs are still going to normalize their ties with Israel.
This whole situation didn't hurt anybody more than the Palestinian people and Iran's regional influence.
vmro
Registered Member
Yes, but in the other hand, all this strategy of Iranian-lead axis through regia is just iteration of eternal imperial strategy, Assyria and then Persia, till this days...
Strategy is simple, being placed on important crossroads and unable to make their country safely protected island, only way to survive is expansion of regional influence as much as possible....
That is insurance for survival in the hardest times, because Iranian heartland is protected from direct destruction, transferring battleground to the proxies... Parthians were master strategists of proxy defensive system, and only one that survived Roman conquests....
History is always repeated on the same ancient patterns...Persian version of "Art Of War", go to fight without self-exposing..
ShapurII
Trusted Member
The problem with Iran's "proxy" defense system is that aside from the Houthies of Yemen who control major Yemeni cities and enjoy some sort of sovereignty, none of our so-called proxies are state actors. Meaning that their activity can be limited, and will be limited by the governing regime of the states where they are in times of need like when we need them for our defense.
Some of them, like Hamas, cannot be considered even remotely loyal to us or our interests.
Do you see the problem now?
Immortals
Elite Member
You mean the same HZ that has been completely infiltrated from within to the point it’s entire chain of command and field officer command was picked off in the course of less than 6 months? Its leader AND successor being both easily assassinated?
Or the notorious fragile security apparatus of IRGC that lead Hamas own leader to be assassinated in one of the “most secure” compounds within Tehran by a bedside bomb? Or its own embassy bombed during an important meeting of Quds Force generals?
Yeah I can’t imagine why that Hamas didn’t give HZ or Iran a heads up…. /s
ShapurII
Trusted Member
There is no evidence that Hezbollah had been infiltrated from within.
The west has complete (emphasis on complete) dominance over the existing electronic devices in the world. Every electronic device could be, and very well might be, compromised with backdoors embedded into their hardware.
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
Don't conflate issues.
(1) I can understand why Hamas did not give Hezbollah or Iran advance notice of its attack as it wanted total secrecy and the more people it shares the plans with, the more chance of it leaking.
(2) That doesn't change the fact that Hamas cannot expect Iran and Hezbollah to join its all-out war with Israel without notice.
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
you make some interesting points
but I don't think this is an imperial strategy. it is based on local autonomy and support without control or conditions
vmro
Registered Member
Iranian state always supported allied groups in different areas on cooperation within the official system with other political groups... if they are not the ruling factors, then they are influential opposition, with ambitions to take place in the government...
Giving various benefits to allied groups, and various punishments, on long-term projections, to unfriendly ones...
Iran will probably redefines the actual axis of resistance concept, but strategy will keep working, because there is no other way to get strong Iranian powerhouse in global terms...
