The two routes that Iran has been taking for years - the cultivation of Shiite militias in the Middle East and the diplomatic bargaining with the West, culminating in Vienna negotiations to return to the nuclear deal - are likely to meet again in the coming weeks.
Hezbollah in Lebanon, al-Shabi's suspicion in Iraq, Shiite militias in Syria and the Houthis in Yemen draw huge budgets from the Islamic Republic, which supplies them with armaments, ammunition and UAV components.
As part of the emerging agreement between Iran and the powers, reported in the Reuters news agency, the US is expected to agree to thaw about $ 7 billion of Iranian money in South Korea, which purchased oil from Tehran. Regime forces and the continuation of the souls of the militias from Yemen to Lebanon.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah,
The Alma Research Center estimated as early as December that Hezbollah now owns 2,000 UAVs. According to the publication, US sanctions have had no effect on this Iranian project, as the components can be purchased online. But Tehran's thawing of Iranian funds means that the budget tap will be opened for more massive purchases of UAV components and even for militias equipment in more advanced UAVs. This is how Hezbollah hopes to maintain its control over the land of cedars.
UAVs provide Iran with a surprise advantage. More than once, pro-Iranian groups in Iraq have launched UAVs into offensive operations deep in Saudi Arabia, or in the United Arab Emirates amid the war against the Houthis in Yemen.
Last week, the United States even intercepted two Iranian drones in Iraq, which were feared to be on their way to Israel (reported in "Here News").
Hezbollah forces in Syria // Photo: AFP,
In light of this, countries in the region are forced to prepare in the various sectors.
Saudi Arabia learned this lesson firsthand in the UAV attack on Aramco oil facilities in 2019. Reuters reported that 17 suicide bombers took off from a Revolutionary Guards base in southwestern Iran, but in the first days of the attack the Houthis in Yemen were also suspected. Key.
Indeed, in recent years the militia has carried out a series of attacks in Saudi Arabia.
Against Israel, too, Iran aspires to establish various fronts.
Hassan's tour of the northern skies overshadowed the glider that was intercepted on the southern border with the Gaza Strip.
There Iran cultivates not only Hamas, but also Islamic Jihad, in which it gains greater influence.
Although there is controversy in Hamas over the quality of relations with Iran, it is not for nothing that the organization has in the past acted against a Shiite group in Gaza called a-Sabrin, which received direct funding from Tehran.
However, the fact that two skimmers were shot down on Thursday - one on the northern border and one on the southern border - suggests coordination with Gaza as well.
The pilot incident was preceded by an attack attributed to Israel in the Damascus area last week.
According to the Syrian opposition, the missiles were launched at a military center used by Hezbollah to establish the "Golan Front."
Iranian President Raisi, Photo: AP
Here, too, Iran applies the doctrine of integration of the sectors, and hints that the rules of the game in the war between the wars will change, and an attack on Syria will provoke a reaction from Lebanon.
Nasrallah himself hinted at this in his last speech, saying that "the enemy is trying in the battle between the wars to strike resistance, as he did in Syria."
In an attempt to present himself as a Lebanese patriot, Nasrallah also tried to minimize the Iranian role in the UAV project and claimed that Hezbollah had been producing them for years.
The Islamic Republic also did not establish Hezbollah out of nowhere.
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