Israel will Target Tehran After Hezbollah & Hamas

In recent months, Iran’s regime has escalated its proxy warfare through various Islamist terrorist groups across the Middle East, aiming to divert attention from its internal weaknesses. By orchestrating attacks against Israel through these factions, the regime attempts to protect itself from direct retaliation while furthering its regional ambitions. However, Israel’s strategic efforts to dismantle Hezbollah and Hamas may soon target the very source of these threats — Tehran and Khamenei.

The Khomeinist Islamic Republic’s repetitive game has been hiding behind terrorist groups. Over the past 11.5 months, it has been constantly moving its Islamic terrorist groups like chess pieces, encouraging all of them to launch missiles and carry out terrorist operations against Israeli People and American forces.

It has even labeled these Islamic terrorists within the Shia Crescent as the “Islamic Resistance.” Unfortunately, Arab and Islamic countries seem to be enjoying this game of fire and have remained silent, though they could have openly condemned the barbaric acts of the outlaw mullahs’ regime. Instead of criticizing, they chose silence. Some even offered their media platforms to Islamic terrorism, like Qatar and Al Jazeera, which seem to have their news and commentaries written in Tehran’s IRIB, by the Muslim Brotherhood, or Turkey’s MIT.

For example, Iranian media would claim that the Houthis had launched missiles against Israel, slapping the “Islamic Resistance” label on it to avoid criticism. But what connection or conflict could possibly exist between a primitive, savage terrorist group in Yemen and Israel, a distance of 2,211 km away? Iran itself is 1,724.48 km away from Israel, and there is no logical basis for this either.

Or take the state-controlled Iranian news agencies that say things like, “An Iraqi Resistance drone enters Israeli airspace” or “Iraqi Resistance announces new missile attack on occupied Palestine.” But what logical connection exists? Why would Iraq, a country 1,080.7 km away from Israel, carry out terrorist acts “in solidarity with the people and resistance of Palestine“?

The answer is simple: Iran’s regime launched a missile at Israel, but under the name of another group, hiding behind it.

The Islamic terrorist groups in Iraq, known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, consist of Shia Islamist insurgents and terrorist factions that are pro-Iran. These terrorist groups form a coalition of ideologically similar factions supported by the Islamic Republic, including Kata’ib Hezbollah (a branch of the Popular Mobilization Forces), Hezbollah al-Nujaba, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada. They all maintain organic, organizational, logistical, and intelligence ties with the PMF (Popular Mobilization Forces) and share Islamist, Khomeinist ideologies, with hostility toward the U.S. and Israel. All of these groups are directed, guided, and managed by the Quds Force, a terrorist organization.

However, the evidence suggests that Israel, with all its military and security strength, is focused on crippling Hamas and Hezbollah, destroying their terrorist leaders, and then dealing with the octopus’s head in Tehran.

If Israel aims to survive and continue its presence, it has no choice but to eliminate the terrorist arm of the Khomeinist Islamic Republic. Whether or not the U.S. joins it, the Islamic Republic has no military or intelligence capability to confront Israel except through the instrumental use of these Islamic terrorist groups within the Shia Crescent.

Inside Iran, the situation is fraught with many hidden and visible crisis, and Israel may not have much time to save itself from this predicament. This must happen before the Shia mullah announces the development of his atomic bomb, which would be a humanitarian disaster in the making.

Ultimately, as tensions escalate, the fate of the region hinges on whether Israel can neutralize Iran’s proxy terrorist network before Tehran’s ambitions spiral into a full-scale regional catastrophe.

Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Iran-backed Hezbollah brigades march during a military parade in Baghdad on May 31, 2019. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)