Of course, I am happy, like everyone else, “says Nasser Abdelkarim, one of the seven million inland inland trees in Syria. He has lived in a refugee camp near Bab El Hawa for over six years,in the immediate vicinity of the Turkish border. In this area, people were the safest in front of the bombs of the Syrian and Russian Air Force.

“What Iran and the Hisbollah have done to all of us is terrible,” says the 65-year-old. “They devastated our houses, cities and villages and murdered many thousands of Syrians” in order to keep the dictator Bashar al-Assad in power. “You will do it again if nobody stops it,” he adds.

In 2013, two years before Russia, Iran had intervened militarily in Syria. Tehran mobilized militias from Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq, who fought against the Syrian rebels under the leadership of Iranian officers of the revolutionary guards. Only the Israeli air strikes were able to drive them out of the country after 12 years.

“Israel,no,you have to say sacred Israel,” emphasized a young man on the market in the refugee camp,who preferred to remain anonymous. After all, the Jewish state is also a sensitive topic under the new Islamist government of President Ahmad Scharaa.In the past few months, the Israeli forces have occupied Syrian territory near the Golan heights as a “buffer zone”. they keep strategic positions in both Syria and Lebanon. This includes the mountain Hermon on the Syrian-Libanese border. From there,Israeli troops can monitor movements in Lebanon and Syria.

Tehran’s militias were a non -to -think cornerstone of the Syrian army. Hisbollah in particular played a crucial role in terms of logistics, planning, training and discipline.Without this support, the Assad regime woudl have fallen in the early years of the uprising in syria. Israel’s commitment made the prerequisite for the surprising triumphal march of the rebels, which led to the presidential palace in Damascus.

An essential point was the weakening of the Lebanese Hezbollah. With the spectacular attack of hundreds of pagers exploding at the same time and the systematic killing of the management team, including general secretary Hassen Nasrallah, the Shiite institution was seriously hit.

The strategic goal was to shake the terrorist group militarily and politically in the long run. To the most part, Israel has also succeeded. Today Hisbollah is no longer the dominant factor in Lebanon. The democratically elected government of the country has taken over the resulting power vacuum, which otherwise had little influence on Hisbollah. This weakened the “axis of resistance” – a network of regional militias that Iran had built up to determine politics in the Middle East in its favor. Hisbollah played a central role in coordination and training the militias from Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Israel “shifts the regional power relationships” in the Middle East, wrote the Middle East Institute after killing the Hisbollah supporter Nasrallah in September. Other internationally known factories spoke of a “reorganization of the middle East”.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently suggested this in a speech: “It started with the killing of Nasrallah and the collapse of the Iran axis”. According to the new, large-scale air strikes in Israel on Iranian military and nuclear systems, Israel seems to want to complete the “reorganization” that started. For one and a half years,Israel is said to have planned the attack called “Operation Rising“. The initial plans for the complete destruction of the “axis of resistance” are likely to be further.

This time the focus is on the central power of the “axis”. The deterrent potential of Iran is to be destroyed once and for all and in particular the nuclear armament, which would significantly substantiate the hegemony of the Islamic Republic. According to Netanyahu, the “lion operation” will take until the threat has disappeared. “For decades, Tehran’s tyrants have called brazenly for the destruction of Israel,” said Netanyahu in his speech after the attack. “If Iran had nuclear weapons, there would be no country called Israel.”

In Jordan’s capital Amman, the sirens are crying on Friday morning after the first Israeli air strikes in Iran. The country’s airport was closed. Air space was also blocked in Iraq and Syria. These countries are passionate paths of Iranian rockets and drones. Numerous states from the Middle East condemned the Israeli attacks and called for an enforcing de -escalation.This included the Golf Cooperation Council, with the exception of Bahrain, as well as Jordan and Lebanon. The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Israeli attacks on Iran represented “a clear violation of international laws and norms”.

For years, many golf states have been known in particular to host the increasing influence of Iran. Iran and its deputy militias have attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia in the past. Still, one seems to rely on neutrality in the oil -rich golf areas. Iran could interrupt the oil trade by blocking Hormus’s strategic meals. The economic interests are at stake, as over 90 percent of Saudi oil exports are handled over the sea.

During the last exchange of blows between jerusalem and Tehran in October, intercepted Iranian rockets in southern Syria took part, schools were closed in the South Libanon and Jordanian jets shot off Iranian drones and rockets. None of the affected states wants such disruptions over a longer period of time.At that time there were rather symbolic counterparts of both parties to the conflict. Israel informed Iran a few hours before an attack and also named the goals, with the indication of refraining from retaliation.

Today, though, this could be entirely different, given the vehemence of Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear and military facilities.The uranium -enrichment system Natanz is said to have been destroyed and the complete management team of the revolutionary guards and well -known nuclear scientists were killed. It was the hardest Israeli attacks on Iran to date.He reacted with the shooting of at least 100 drones and ballistic rockets, most of which were shot down, according to the Israeli military.

Iran threatens to “punish”

Tehran swore revenge and the top guide of the country,Ayatollah Ali Chamenei,threatened to “punish”. The Hisbollah militia he financed in Lebanon expressed solidarity, but otherwise it was cautious. “The criminal Israeli enemy and its tyrannical protective power of America will harvest nothing other than shame, humiliation and loss,” announced the terrorist organization in the well -known propaganda style. but so far no trace of military actions against “criminal Israel”.

The fact that the Hisbollah does not rush to the aid of Iran is also due to the new political order in Lebanon, which ultimately enabled the interventions of Israel. According to the Saudi broadcaster Al-arabiya, the Lebanese government has warned the Hezbollah against getting Lebanon into a new war with Israel. The times are over when the Hisbollah could handle the state in war declarations. As the ceasefire with Israel, the new Lebanese president Joseph Aoun has been trying to fully disarm the Hisbollah. The Israeli army switches off officials of the terrorist group almost every day, without the Hisbollah being countered.