Tehran’s restraint despite increasingly aggressive Israeli operations has unsettled Lebanese militant group
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian has said his country wants to usher in a 'new era' of foreign policy and re-engage with the West. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Imagesof its commitment to the militant group after unease within its ranks over Tehran’s restraint in the face of increasingly aggressive
Dream Factory review: Parody of society’s environmental and ethical self-flagellation is hilarious from start to finishTehran has had to dispatch envoys to Beirut to scotch fears that it had deserted Hizbullah, according to people familiar with the matter, following a series of devastating blows including Israel’s most deadly air raids in Lebanon for decades.
Some in Hizbullah’s support base and beyond have felt a stinging sense of abandonment by Iran, which has long cast a protective shadow over the group and Lebanon’s Shia Muslims. While Iran’s overall foreign and regional policies are controlled by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the powerful Revolutionary Guards, Pezeshkian’s conciliatory stance suggests there has been a change of short-term priorities in the republic.
But Israel’s attacks have also rattled the Islamic regime, fuelling concerns about the threat posed by Israeli sabotage and intelligence networks inside the republic. In July, Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in a suspected Israeli attack in Tehran, hours after he attended Pezeshkian’s inauguration, a humiliating security breach.
He dismissed suggestions of a rift between Iran and Hizbullah as “false and a deviation from reality” even though the regime “will maintain its policy of restraint”.
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