Essentially this means Iran wants to bring together numerous groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and also groups in Syria and Iraq to threaten Israel. Iran knows it can’t defeat Israel in a conventional war, but bringing together numerous types of threats can pose a challenge to Israel, Iran thinks.
Hezbollah is the strongest Iranian proxy
It has up to 150,000 rockets and missiles, thousands of drones and anti-tank missiles, as well as other munitions. Iran’s own media now provides an insight into Hezbollah accomplishments over 50 days of fighting.
Those 50 days included daily attacks on Israel using rockets, mortars and anti-tank missiles. More recently they involved the heavy missile called “Burkan” which has a large warhead. Iran has frequently praised and highlighted these attacks.
The Iranian article at Tasnim News, which is close to Iran’s IRGC says that “what is certain is that the first phase of the resistance conflict with the Zionist enemy during the Gaza war has ended, and if the Zionists resume their aggression after the end of the temporary ceasefire, we will enter the second phase of the war, which may be more severe than the first phase.” READ MORE
