Without officially declaring war on Iran, Israel brazenly dispatched F-35 fighter jets in active service with the Air Force to directly bomb the Iranian embassy in Damascus, the Syrian capital, and eventually led to the embassy building being almost razed to the ground. It is important to know that the embassy of a country is as significant as the territory of a country in the legal sense. Therefore, we can consider this move by Israel to be a serious violation of Iran's sovereignty!
What is even more noteworthy is that Israel's brutal bombing also led to the unfortunate death of three Iranian generals, including Brigadier General Zahedi and Brigadier General Rahimi of the Iranian armed forces, as well as Brigadier General Abdullah. You must know that in the Iranian armed forces, major generals are basically already at the highest level, such as the famous Soleimani is only a major general, and he was posthumously recognized as a lieutenant general after his death. It can be seen that the loss of three brigadier generals at this time is a huge loss for the Iranian armed forces!
Iran, as the well-known "lion of the Middle East," will certainly not rest on its laurels. What is surprising is that a full week has passed since the Israeli airstrikes, but Iran's large-scale retaliation has not yet been carried out in full swing. The reason for this may be seen from the recent statement of the Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.
On April 6, local time, Major General Bagheri, Chief of the Iranian General Staff, publicly stated at the funeral of General Zahedi, who was killed in the bombing of the consulate, that retaliation would definitely take revenge, but it would be a "coordinated plan", and Iran would decide for itself when and how to carry out retaliation. The Israeli attack will not go unanswered, but our actions will be carried out "cautiously, and they will definitely regret their actions." Outside analysts believe that the statement of the Iranian chief of general staff is also the reason why Iran is likely not to launch large-scale retaliation in the near future, because Iran needs to "find the most suitable opportunity".
As a matter of fact, it is undoubtedly very wise for Iran not to carry out large-scale direct retaliation at this time, because if Iran now "personally ends" to retaliate against Israel, then it will actually fall into Israel's conspiracy! Because the reason why Israel attacked the Iranian embassy so frantically is to prompt Iran to launch a direct military attack on Israel. In this way, the United States will have to intervene in order to keep Israel, and Israel will succeed in achieving its sinister goal of pulling the United States into the water.
In fact, this is something that neither the United States nor Iran wants to see, so it is undoubtedly very rare for Iran to choose to maintain its strategic focus in order not to engage in a head-on conflict with the United States and not to be dragged into a war with the United States by Israel.
Of course, the fact that Iran will not end does not mean that the rest of the "Iranian" armed forces in the Middle East will not stop. Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias have already launched attacks on U.S. and Israeli military bases, and Allah in Lebanon may also make moves in the near future. The United States has also publicly predicted that Iran is likely to launch some retaliatory actions by April 10 at the latest, and Israel has now begun to withdraw its troops from Gaza, which is likely to be for self-preservation. We continue to see what happens next for Iran and the armed groups it supports.