Why are Iran and its proxies unlikely to be deterred by US strikes? - analysis

Iran believes that, in the long term, the US is slowly withdrawing from the region, likely emboldening Iran and its proxies to go for broke when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.

Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, the head of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, attends the funeral ceremony of senior adviser for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Sayyed Razi Mousavi, who was killed in an Israeli air strike outside the Syrian capital Damascus, in Tehran, Iran December 28, 2023.

(photo credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)

BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

FEBRUARY 3, 2024 22:22