The fear of the fall of the Persian regime, created factors of division inside Iran, that made the understanding of the policy of the foreign international world, very suspicious and not trusted. This mentality helped in some way to press the state of Iran, in the immutable rule of the Ayatollah and led to wars like the Iran-Iraq War
Through history, Iran has been supporting terrorist groups like, Hezbollah.
Hezbollah has provided training, advice, and logistics to governments, like Syria. Hezbollah based in Lebanon targets the state of ISRAEL, the U.S.A. and they have threaten U.S. forces in Iraq. Hezbollah has operations in Africa, the Americas and Asia. The Iranian state provides most of Hezbollah’s weapons and funding.
Iran is not a fair player in the international arena in matters of security. The state interferes and affiliates with rough actors in the area which made things very difficult and violent in the whole territory. Their Relations, with the state of Israel must be checked from the great powers. The U.S.A shouldn’t be the only main assisted state for Israel. China and S. Arabia must act and give more attention to the issues of Israel because Middle East problems can very easily become far East problems. The state of Israel is suffering right now by the terrorist groups, like Hamas, and checks and balances must be placed.
After the exchanges of fire at October 7th, the U.S. military assets have conveyed warnings to Hezbollah to not get involved in the situation of Israel-Palestinians. The Congress planning humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians, but the Arab gates to Sinai are closed and they can’t have access to the needed territories. President Biden and the Congress of the U.S. gave $14 billion in security assistance for Israel.
Iran must learn to act inside the security international rules and stay away from the violent and brutal terrorist groups that the area provides. The mentality has to change and start creating new conversations with the states in their area. Adaptation of new security rules has to take place for the security of all.
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Yota,
I agree with your assessment that Iran’s international security behavior must change if conflict is to be avoided. Because I am reading class research papers, I am not providing extensive comments on the blog posts this week. –Professor Wallerstein