Iran's pride and prestige

Since the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in the heart of Tehran and after the bombing of Hezbollah headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which led to the martyrdom of the party’s chief of staff, Fouad Shaqr, Iran and its major ally, Hezbollah, have been preparing to launch air strikes on Israel. American sources indicate that they may occur at dawn on Tuesday or during the daytime through statements, expectations and speculations, but they do not carry any reassurances. The situation in the Middle East is currently tense and heated amid continuous threats between all parties to the conflict. However, the most important question that arises is, what will these strikes look like if they are implemented today or in the coming few days? Given the seriousness of the Iranians and Hezbollah in directing these strikes to preserve their pride and prestige, after Israel has humiliated them more than once, the answer to this pivotal and important question, which every person in the homeland and the world asks, is that since Iran feels a great insult, with the penetration of its security system, which it considers strong and solid, it will direct harsh, difficult and deep strikes against Israeli military targets and installations, with the help of Hezbollah, which may open the doors of escalation in the region wide open, after all diplomatic attempts and efforts have failed to defuse the tension in the region.

Iran believes that Israel is the one that is crossing the line and that its recent assassinations are attempts to destabilize security and peace in the Middle East and drag the region into a comprehensive regional war. Therefore, Tehran, through a large number of its officials, says that it will restore balance to the region, and this can only come about by deterring Israel and directing strikes towards its occupying entity. However, it will undoubtedly decide to respond in a balanced and well-thought-out manner so as not to pave the way for deterioration into a comprehensive war, as it did in its last response last April.

Israel is always trying to provoke Iran, attack it, and carry out sabotage and distortion campaigns, and provoke it, and considers the expected military confrontation an opportunity for Israel to strike the Iranian nuclear reactor, and thwart its nuclear project, which Israel does not like at all, not only because it poses a threat to it, but also because Iran has succeeded in dealing with the Western campaign against its nuclear project with great intelligence. Less than a month ago, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that Iran is only a few weeks away from producing a nuclear bomb, and this is not a new claim, as there are opinions from the West and the East that preceded him in this, some of which suggest that Iran is capable of producing five nuclear bombs within a few weeks if it makes a decision to do so, because the materials for producing it from enriched uranium have become available.

After the assassination of Haniyeh, the pace of threats between Iran and Israel continues, in light of Tehran’s efforts to restore its prestige and dignity and to direct a somewhat strong response, but it will not drag the region into a wide regional war, and the possibility of Israel resorting to a preemptive strike in Lebanon and Iran. Will the expected strike come and will Israel respond to it in a way that allows for the expansion of the war, or will the Iranian response be in line with global desires and calls to avoid placing the region at a difficult crossroads and causing a new global war?

Everyone is waiting, is the time really here?