Over the past weekend, Iran’s military-industrial facilities were attacked by unidentified drones. The attacks primarily targeted facilities in Isfahan, as well as Hamadan, Khoi, Garakh, Tabriz, Keredzh, and, on Sunday night, Mehabad and the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Commentators immediately began discussing the possibility of a special military operation against Iran with the aim of demilitarizing it and launching a pre-emptive strike against it. Supporters of Putin’s Russia and Khomeinist Iran, including pro-Kremlin «Muslim bloggers,» expressed outrage that those responsible for these attacks would not face the same sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
It is clear that their hearts (or whatever they have in place of hearts) ache for Khomeinist Iran, which suffered these attacks, and for Putin’s Russia, which is being mistreated by the imposition of sanctions. However, we must cool their fervor and their (un)righteous anger about «double standards». After all, no one has (yet) declared a «special military operation» against Iran, and the attack was carried out by unidentified individuals. Maybe they were some polite people, or maybe they were self-defense forces who bought drones on the military black market. So any claims should be directed at them.
But seriously, the Khomeinist regime is beginning to reap the rewards of its hybrid warfare policy. Although it officially does not supply Iranian drones to Russia, they somehow end up there, bombing critical infrastructure in Ukraine, leaving civilians without electricity and heat, and often claiming the lives of innocent people. Similarly, it did not «fight» on the side of the Houthis in Yemen, but Iranian weapons, as well as Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah military instructors, somehow found their way there. Moreover, the embassy of Azerbaijan in Iran was recently attacked by unknown assailants, although for some reason the reaction of the Iranian authorities was quite calm, even approving, according to some commentators.
In short, the boomerang of the hybrid wars launched by the Khomeinist regime is coming back to haunt them. There is no reason to mourn, as their place is in the dustbin of history.