In escalating crises, which herald the outbreak of major regional or international conflicts given the overlapping of their causes and the complexity of their backgrounds and motives, as is the case with what is happening in Gaza, regional powers are supposed to assume responsible roles through which they seek to calm the situation and cool the atmosphere.
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But what Iran is doing in this crisis starts with its role in planning to booby trap and ignite the situation between the terrorist Hamas movement and the Israelis, and ends with continuing incitement to escalation and the constant threat of the intervention of its agents deployed in several countries in the region in the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
This reflects the true face of this regime, which has been feeding on crises since its establishment in 1979 and cannot live in a calm and stable regional and international atmosphere.
Every specialist and observer realizes that the Iranian combat doctrine is based on waging proxy wars, and therefore the Iranian regime has harnessed many of Iran's resources to form, finance, and arm sectarian militias in several countries and regions.
From Yemen in the south to Lebanon in the north, it relies on a network of relationships and ideological loyalties with extremist and terrorist organizations and groups such as the Houthis, Hezbollah, and armed Shiite organizations and factions in Iraq. It also has relationships and organizational links with groups with which it stands on common ground, such as the Palestinian Hamas movement.
Away from emotions, at a historical moment that requires the use of reason and wisdom in our right to spare the blood of innocents and civilians, we believe that it is illogical for the Arab nations to accuse some Western powers of being a partner in responsibility for the blood flowing on the Palestinian side without directing the same accusation against those who planned and orchestrated Hamas' bloody and terrorist attack against Israel, which caused the current conflict to be ignited. The blood of innocent people that was shed, whether on the Israeli side or the Palestinian side, dictates that every person with a human conscience must adopt a position in which he rises morally, far from feelings of revenge and vengeance, which cannot be a starting point to talking about the current crisis.
The point here is that Iran is also responsible for the blood of innocent victims on both the Palestinian and Israeli sides, and for all this devastation and chaos that has spread in the Middle East since the seventh of October, for which there seems to be no imminent end in sight.
It is noteworthy that while the US administration avoids directing any direct accusation against Iran of responsibility for what is happening in Gaza, we find Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei explicitly accusing Washington of being "an accomplice in the crimes" in Gaza and "in some way managing these crimes."
This sends a strong message to the United States, and to everyone else as well, that its hesitation in resolving positions is whether out of a motive to maintain thin, tenuous ties with Tehran, or out of a motive to avoid the consequences of any official American accusation against it.
President Joe Biden does not want to expand the conflict front and target Iran or even respond to any of its violent behavior. We say it frankly: The hesitation of the American administration over the past many years in dealing with the Iranian threat is one of the reasons for the burning situation in Gaza.
Were it not for Tehran's certainty that the White House would not engage in a direct conflict with it no matter what happened, Iran would not have persisted in the challenging behavior expressed by Iranian Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri by warning that the continuation of Israeli attacks on the Palestinians while supporting Israel by other countries may lead to "new players entering the arena."
This warning was not only military but was also expressed politically by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, who warned that time was running out in terms of "finding political solutions" before the expansion of the war between Israel and Hamas became inevitable. These warnings meant that Tehran's regional agents were ready to get involved on a wider battlefront and ignite the entire Middle East.
Things seem very clear when the Iranian foreign minister appoints himself as a spokesman for his country's agents of various terrorist groups, organizations, and militias, and says that the party has reached a level of power that forced the Americans to send dozens of letters to it demanding that it not open a front against Israel, and confirms that "the resistance in Palestine In its best condition."
Now the masks have fallen and there is no option for anyone but to call things by their true names. There is no room for cover-up behind any pretexts. Iran does not want security, stability, or the tyranny of the idea of "resistance" for our region, whether against Israel or the United States.
The escalatory tone of Iran and its regional axis is rising in light of a global environment suffering from division, fragmentation, and a sharp polar conflict that fuels, feeds on, and benefits from Iran's orientation.
