Abdullahian's tour comes after Tehran and Washington confirmed that they exchanged letters following Israel's targeting of Iran's consulate in Damascus (French)

Tehran -

 To the beat of the drums of war, and the announcement of the Supreme Leader’s advisor for military affairs, Major General Yahya Safavi, that “Israeli embassies in the world are no longer safe after the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian landed on Sunday in the Omani capital, Muscat. Announcing a regional tour that led him the next day to Damascus, before leaving later for Beirut on his third stop.

This comes just a week after the assassination of 7 Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers, most notably the commander of the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and his deputy, Mohammad Hadi Rahimi, in an Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate, where Tehran vowed through its senior officials that “revenge will inevitably come.” It placed its armed forces on “high alert.”

After the Iranian and American sides confirmed that they had exchanged messages following the attack, Abdullahian’s visit to Oman, which was famous for mediation between them, confirms what was already confirmed, but its coincidence with the leak of some reports about its relationship with reducing the escalation in the Gaza Strip, raises questions about what the Iranian minister is discussing behind closed doors on his regional tour. .

The Iranian Foreign Minister began his regional tour with a visit to Muscat and a meeting with a Yemeni Houthi official (social networking sites)

Secret messages

Meanwhile, an Iranian source close to the Iranian Foreign Ministry - on condition of anonymity - revealed that Tehran had received a message from the United States calling for reducing the escalation and not attacking Israel, in response to Iran’s previous message regarding its intention to attack the occupied Palestinian territories directly.

Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, the source added that Iran had made it a condition for its retreat from its operations deep inside Israel that Washington would guarantee a permanent and immediate truce in Gaza and that the Israeli army would not carry out the planned attack on Rafah, adding that the diplomacy of secret messages and regional mediation had not yet fully yielded results, but it had come a reliable way. He must stop military operations in Gaza during the coming period.

He added that the Iranian conditions “do not mean that it has completely abandoned taking revenge on its victims from the Zionist entity,” and that the indirect negotiations between Washington and Tehran seek to discourage the latter from striking the Israeli depths at the present time, stressing that what matters to his country now is saving the innocents in Gaza in the hope of settling scores with them. The Israeli enemy later.

American incentives

For his part, the former Iranian ambassador to Norway, Sri Lanka and Hungary, Abdul Reza Farjirad, believes that Abdullahian’s regional tour is directly related to the negotiations - through Western and regional mediators - with the United States, adding that some unofficial circles are talking about American incentives to discourage Iran from attacking Iran. Israel in exchange for a new deterrence equation that puts an end to Israeli operations in Syria and a retreat from attacking Rafah.

Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, the former Iranian diplomat sees American pressure behind Israel’s withdrawal of most of its military forces from the Gaza Strip recently, explaining that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in his last speech, yesterday, Sunday, “frustrated and losing hope in recovering the prisoners held by Hamas, and yesterday he was begging for a deal.” With the Palestinian resistance movement.

He believed that what is happening in the field, especially in Gaza, indicates the intensity of American diplomacy to prevent matters from getting worse in the region and the increasing pressure from Washington on Tel Aviv, despite the sensitivity of American political circles towards the current administration and how it deals with the Israeli aggression against Gaza and targeting Zionist-American interests in the Middle East.

For his part, the politician, former head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian Parliament, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, praised his country’s diplomacy to miss the opportunity for the Israeli extreme right, which seeks to lure Iran into an open war with the United States, considering that the direct Iranian response at the present time is in the interest of Tel Aviv.

In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, the Iranian politician indicated that the Israeli right-wing government is suffering a major crisis as a result of its ongoing war on Gaza and that it is looking for a pretext to save it from the Gaza quagmire and strengthen the alignment of its Western allies with it. He saw in the diplomatic channels between Tehran and Washington a way to block Netanyahu, who wants Creating an additional security crisis in the region.

The same spokesman believed that the diplomacy led by Abdullahian these days will enhance the strategic depth of the Islamic Republic in the Middle East and tip the balance of diplomacy over the field in the balance of foreign policy in a way that guarantees national interests and the lives of Iranian advisors in Syria.

The Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus exacerbated tensions in the region after Tehran pledged to respond (Reuters)

Response and de-escalation

On the other hand, some Iranian observers believe that retreating from the revenge and vengeance that the official authorities have long praised following the Israeli raids on its forces in Syria may establish new rules of engagement in the region that will motivate other parties to attack Iranian targets.

After the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria brought the decades-long war between Tehran and Tel Aviv out of the shadows and into the open, political geography professor Atta Taghavi Asl believes that retreating from retaliation after raising one’s voice loudly may be interpreted as an indication of weakness.

In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, Taghavi believes that his country has become faced with the duality of meeting the popular demands for revenge and reducing the escalation consistent with wisdom, stressing that there is no need for Tehran to strike the Israeli depths after it lit the fires of resistance in the wildfire of the occupation. He is surprised by his country’s authorities making promises of revenge against Israel despite the fact that Tehran has taken severe revenge on the occupation over the past 7 months.

He called on his country to draw lessons from the behavior of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who bombed Israel during the Second Gulf War in 1991 with dozens of missiles, as Tel Aviv refrained from responding at the time, but the Baathist regime eventually fell, stressing the necessity of making strategic decisions that are far from emotions and are in line with the situation. National interests and the conditions the country is experiencing.

Source: Al Jazeera