The Iranians want a seat at the table," a senior source with direct knowledge of Tehran’s thinking told Reuters, explaining its actions were meant to give Iran a voice and not allow the U.S. and Israel to dictate the outcome.(…)

Be it in Davos or elsewhere, the difficulty of establishing dialogue with Iran is its involvement in conflicts via proxies. This strategy was designed by Qaseem Soleimani, the commander of the IRGC’s foreign operations force Quds who was killed by a 2020 U.S. military strike on Baghdad airport. Iran promised to retaliate. “His legacy lives on: a network of deniable but deployable arms-length proxies across the region,” a Western executive working in the Middle East, who asked not to be named due to security concerns, told Reuters.

  • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    10 months ago

    Fuck the Iranian government and fuck the US government, but please someone who stans either side for whatever reason explain to me how operating through “proxies” is somehow worse than executing direct air strikes on foreign leaders?

    You’ve got one side funding terrorist cells to cause disruption in the region. And you’ve got the other side with a history of doing the same shit but we totally don’t do it now we promise.

    Just seems more and more that the US Should just be leaving the region the fuck alone and let them fight each other all they want. We aren’t the world police

    • pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      10 months ago

      Shia aren’t really known for terrorism. Death squads? Sure, but what right wing government doesn’t partake in a bit of death squad shenanigans.

      Terrorism is much more of a Sunni / Wahhabist tactic.