Recently, Israel attacked the Iranian embassy in Syria, triggering Iran's retaliatory action by launching missiles and drones into Israel proper.
Judging from the current situation, Iran has tactfully handled the intensity of its retaliatory actions - informing Israel's neighboring countries in advance to strike targets, and these countries will then feed back the intelligence to Israel's big brother, the United States, who is eager to save his father, so it naturally wants to share intelligence with Daddy Israel and prepare in advance.
Iran has successfully test-fired several hypersonic missiles that have evaded Israeli air defenses and hit their targets. This situation is naturally a win-win-win situation - Iran's move has appeased the discontent of the domestic masses, after all, it has retaliated; Israel has not done much substantial damage except for the loss of an intelligence center; and the United States can be regarded as a meritorious person in saving his father, adding points to public opinion for the elder Biden's candidacy for the next president.
However, the discerning person will see that although Iran's retaliation did not kill and injure a large number of Israeli personnel, the successful test launch of the hypersonic missile shows that Iran has taken another solid step in becoming a future military power in the Middle East. This also solves a mystery, the question of where the hypersonic missiles in the hands of the Houthi brothers of the United States, Britain and other countries come from.
Iran has hypersonic missiles, which are of great military significance. Last year, Iran test-fired a Khorramshahr-4 long-range ballistic missile with a warhead weighing 1.5 tons and a range of 2,000 kilometers, 16 times the speed of sound and capable of penetrating all anti-defense systems. This time, Iran has put this hypersonic missile to the test on the battlefield.
The Fatah missile announced by Iran last year surpasses its Russian counterpart in some respects, reaching speeds of up to Mach 13-14, posing a major threat to the United States and Israel
Iran now has the capability to attack all U.S. military bases in the Middle East from a long distance, and the U.S. deterrent in the Middle East is gone.
So the current situation is that the ball of retaliation is kicked to Israel again, and if it follows up? If Israel retaliates again, will Iran stop sharing its targets in advance?
Many people say that Iran has coaxed this time, and it will not dare to act after a symbolic retaliation. However, Hamas has not surrendered to Israel, the Houthis in the Red Sea are still attacking American and British merchant ships, and Allah in Lebanon is still harassing Israel. Excuse me, isn't this still Iran's military action against Israel? Israel's surprise attack on Iran has been lonely and has not changed the difficult situation of multi-headed warfare that it is facing.
Under the current turbulent waves of war in the Middle East, there is also an undercurrent surging in which Iran is taking advantage of the opportunity to expand its own power in the Middle East countries.
Iran has long been alone in the Middle East. Iran has successfully transformed itself into a minority in the Islamic world since the 16th century, when it converted from Sunni Islam to Shia. Shiites make up only about 10 to 15 percent of Muslims, while a large number of Islamic countries are Sunnis, with Sunnis making up about 85 to 90 percent.
In addition, Iran is one of the very few countries in the Islamic world that has maintained its own independent culture, namely Persian culture, which has largely maintained its historical territory, which is very different from other Muslim countries in the Middle East that believe in Arab culture, which is typical of Arab culture, and does not retain the ancient Babylonian culture. Countries take sides according to culture, and Iran is also considered a minority.
What really isolated Iran in the Middle East was the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
In November 1977, President Carter, King Pahlavi, and Queen Farah, Rosalyn Carter, were on the South Lawn of the White House, and the Iranian Revolution was caused by the overthrow of a pro-American regime
Between August 1978 and February 1979, a revolution broke out in Iran, overthrowing the long-pro-American Pahlavi dynasty and abolishing the monarchy, and Grand Ayatollah Khomeini and his companions created the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran is ideologically beginning to return to primitive Islam. The Iranian Revolution had global implications, and it was the first, and so far the only, popular movement in the Islamic world that succeeded in sustaining and continuing to advance its ideological goals. From the early 1980s, it began to influence Islamist movements in neighbouring Iraq, as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon and Syria.
It can be said that the success of the Iranian revolution is a great blow to the old order in the Middle East, and most of the countries in the Middle East are controlled by the vested interests of the old Islamic Sunni vested interest groups, and they will not tolerate the revolutionary storm in Iran affecting themselves, so they have isolated Iran for a long time under the banner of opposing Iran's "export revolution" led by Saudi Arabia.
The Islamic Republic of Iran fought an eight-year war with Iraq at the beginning of its establishment, and both sides were defeated – Iran did not oust Saddam Hussein from power and was forced to accept a ceasefire, and Iraq did not succeed in invading Iran, and a large number of hostile countries in the vicinity and outside the region did not dare to take invasive military action against Iran. Over the past few years, Iran has repeatedly humiliated the United States in the international community and engaged in a large-scale uranium enrichment program, and the United States hates it to the core, and even if it personally sent troops to invade Iraq, it did not dare to directly send troops to Iran, and this is related to the heavy consequences of the "Iran-Iraq war."
Since then, Iran has gradually intervened in Middle East affairs by taking advantage of Israel's attacks and invasions of Middle Eastern countries.
In addition to Iran, there are also some Muslims in Arab countries who practice Shia. For example, in the southern part of present-day Lebanon, there are Shiites who have lived for centuries. These Shia Muslims are a minority and have long been despised by the superior Sunni Muslim and Christian communities. Between 1979 and 1981, Lebanese Shiites re-established ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
As a result of Israel's brutal invasion of Lebanon, Lebanese Shiites are increasingly linked to Iran. Iran sent a large number of Republican Guard members to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley region to help train young Shiite fighters.
The social unrest in Lebanon brought about by the Israeli invasion and the influence of Iran contributed to the birth of Allah Lebanon in 1982-1983. From the outset, Allah in Lebanon has made armed opposition to Israel its organizational purpose.
Under the ties of Allah in Lebanon, Iran has established relations with the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas. Hamas's good relations with Iran are based on Iran's commitment to "oppose Israel and support Palestine."
Beginning in the 9th century, a state in northern Yemen was ruled by leaders and politicians of the Zay'd sect, a branch of Islam's Shiite sect, before being overthrown by coup officers to establish the Yemeni Arab Republic. In 1990, North and South Yemen were reunited and the Republic of Yemen was formed. The Yemeni government's repeated weakening of the Zaydites has sparked a religious revival movement led by the Young Believers. The group later evolved into a political group critical of the Yemeni government's relations with the West.
In 2003, when the Iraq War broke out, the Young Faithers group held mass demonstrations against the pro-American policies of the Yemeni government, which was suppressed by the Yemeni government. The following year, the Yemeni government killed the Houthis, the leader of the group Young Believers, who later changed their name to the Houthis, now known as the Houthis.
In 2011, the Arab Spring swept across the Middle East, and Yemen's Saleh government collapsed amid a wave of domestic opposition. The Houthis have taken part in the campaign against Saleh's government and have taken advantage of the opportunity to gain power. As their specific demands were not met by Yemen's interim government, the Houthis attacked Sana'a in 2014, triggering a civil war in Yemen. In 2015, the fighting in Yemen escalated after a Saudi-led coalition launched a military campaign against the Houthis.
The Houthis are close to Iran because of their fellow Shia affiliations. Saudi Arabia finances Yemen's Sunnis and their Salafist offshoots, while Iran funds the Houthis as representatives of Yemeni Shiite groups.
The Houthis are now often seen as Iranian-backed "regional proxy forces," along with Allah in Lebanon and Shiite militias in Iraq. Last year, the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran continued to advance, leading to a détente in relations between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia.
However, many Western researchers have pointed out that the Houthis are not agents of Iran, and that the Houthis have their own political opinions, but Iran has a greater influence on them.
As a result of Israel's invasion of the Palestinian Gaza region, the Houthi actions in the Red Sea have highlighted anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-Western characteristics, which determine that its hostility to the United States and Israel is long-term and in line with Iran's regional interests.
Since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas, Iran has intensified its infiltration across the Middle East. Iran has even expanded its allies, including the non-Shiite Alawite Assad regime and the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is an offshoot.
It is worth noting that in recent years, Syria's relations with Iran have become increasingly close, and the Syrian government has introduced a number of policies in favor of Shiites. In 2014, Bashar al-Assad passed legislation to introduce the teaching of 12 imams in Shia Islam in Syrian public schools. In 2018, a jurisprudential committee was established by presidential decree to allocate quotas to the Shiites of the Twelve Imam, paving the way for Iranian clerics to hold high religious positions in Syria.
Imam Mosque, Imam Mosque, Isfahan, Iran, 1841 by Pascal Koster, View of the Royal Palace and the King's Mosque from the Courtyard
The serious consequences of Israel's frantic provocation of neighboring Arab countries this time are that it has pushed some Arab countries and some Islamic religious forces to continuously strengthen their relations with Iran, and has also led to more and more infiltration of Iranian forces in the Middle East.
The Shiite strong foothold in Syria has further strengthened Iran's "axis of resistance", forming a "Shiite crescent" of influence that stretches from Bahrain through Iran, Iraq, and Syria to the Bekaa Valley and the Mediterranean.
And Iran's layout for so many years has played a fatal role in deterring Israel's expansion. Although Iran does not yet have the conditions to directly send troops to fight Israel, because Israel has always stood behind its son, the grinning United States. But in time, Iran's noose around Israel's Israelis-hostile Israel will become tighter and tighter.
Everything will come when the day comes when the United States, Israel's good son, will decline in the Middle East, and Iran will be able to tighten the noose around Israel's neck.
Israel can also see this, so in the current situation, it will do whatever it takes to pull the United States into the water, hoping that the United States will directly send troops to attack Iran and reduce the deep military threat posed by Iran.