A top commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Israeli regime must come to terms with new realities in West Asia, which include the growing dominance of the resistance forces in the region. Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani, who leads the IRGC’s Quds Force, said on Monday that increasing attacks on the Israeli regime by the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah and Yemen’s Ansarullah movement have put an end to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dreams to expand the regime’s “security belt.” Hezbollah has been launching attacks on Israel since the early days of the US-Israeli aggression on Iran in late February. Ansarullah said over the weekend that it had joined the fight by carrying out missile attacks on areas in the south of the Israeli-occupied territories. “Netanyahu would have liked to see the security belt project expand in the region, but the smart and brave fire conducted by our Hezbollah brothers in the north and the Ansarullah in the south have exposed the regime’s false promises to its settlers,” Qa’ani said in a post on social media. The general said that the coordinated attacks by Iran, Hezbollah, and Ansarullah on targets in the Israeli-occupied territories are exactly what was once sought by martyred commanders of the resistance. “There is only a one united war room for the resistance front. Get used to the new order of the region,” he said in the Farsi-language post. Experts say Hezbollah’s fight in support of Iran has put a huge strain on the Israeli regime at a time when it is grappling with barrages of missiles and drones fired from Iran. They say Ansarullah’s contribution, especially if it expands to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to restrict shipping in those waterways, would lead to a further rise in international energy and commodity prices. Iran has already imposed restrictions on transit through the Strait of Hormuz, causing a major disruption to the flow of energy to Asia and the rest of the world.
Get used to new regional order, IRGC’s Quds commander tells Israelis
