Iran once again shows how it is willing to support any enemy of Israel as long as its proxies are the only ones taking any risk.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said at his weekly press conference today that Iran will not leave any of "the criminal acts" of Israel unanswered.
"We stand strongly and we will act in a way that is regretful [for the enemy]" Kanaani said.
That is all that Reuters reported. But there was a follow-up question, asking whether Iran is planning to send any fighter to Lebanon to actually help out Hezbollah. His answer to that was far more enlightening.
"The governments of Lebanon and Palestine have the capacity and power to confront the aggression of the Zionist regime, and there is no need to deploy Iranian auxiliary or volunteer forces," Kanaani answered.
"We have not received any requests either and we know that they do not need the assistance of our expeditionary forces," Kanaani added.
Last October, Iran's Revolutionary Guard created an online recruitment campaign for volunteers to help Hamas fight Israel. They claimed over 3 million volunteers, including children. But now Iran is saying that even the people who want to help combat the Zionist enemy are not allowed to go.
This lack of support for Hezbollah by Iran has not been unnoticed by Lebanon's Shiite community, who are bitter towards Iran for what they consider its abandoning Hezbollah. Some are saying that Iran, which has said it is interested in re-opening talks on the nuclear deal, is selling out Hezbollah for its own economy.
“I am so angry with Iran. The Iranians saw how we were being beaten up. They went after the United States for nuclear power. They don't care about us," one Shiite woman told a Lebanese French-language newspaper Le Orient le Jour.
Others are even going so far as to create conspiracy theories to blame Iran for Nasrallah's death.. Sheikh Mohammad Ali Husseini, a former member of Hezbollah who left the party in 2006 and now lives in Saudi Arabia, addressed Nasrallah in a TV interview two days before Nasrallah was assassinated saying that Iran was planning his death: "He who bought you has sold you. If only you knew what Iran said about you and the extent of the information it provided (to Israel), if you also knew how much they demanded in exchange for your assassination." He suggested that Nasrallah write his will.
Iran has based its entire anti-Israel military strategy on using proxies as cannon fodder. The people Iran intends to turn into martyrs are slowly waking up.
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