Iran’s Khamenei Promises Revenge Against Israel Over Strike On Embassy
For those wondering whether or not the war in Gaza would expand into multiple fronts, it looks like that question has now been answered. And, unless Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is engaging in a dramatic bluff, it appears that the nation is about to enter the conflict.
Khamenei declared on Tuesday that “Israel will be punished” for the attack the previous day that killed members of the Revolutionary Guard, including two generals, at the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus.
“The evil Zionist regime will be punished at the hands of our brave men. We will make them regret this crime and the other ones,” Khamenei said in a message published on his official website.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi declared that the “cowardly crime will not go unanswered.”
It’s important to note that Israel and Iran have already been engaged in a proxy war, with Iranian supported Hezbollah soldiers exchanging fire with Israeli troops on the border of Lebanon since the beginning of the fighting in Gaza. Theories abound on the purpose of the embassy attack, including the claim that Israel intends to bring the US into the war by triggering open Iranian involvement.
Under the Biden Administration US entry into the conflict is almost assured if a front is opened with Iran. The saber rattling has been mounting since at least January when militants allegedly armed with Iranian weapons attacked an outpost along the Syrian/Jordanian border, killing three US soldiers.
The obvious question is why are US troops still in Syria? There are two equally compelling answers: first, they are there to oversee and protect the revamping of Syrian oil fields to secure American energy interests. Second, they are there exactly because both Iran and Russia have operations in the region and the powers-that-be want the option to use those soldiers as fodder to start a wider war.
