{"id":316633,"date":"2024-02-22T21:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=316633"},"modified":"2024-02-22T21:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:13:39","slug":"iran-encouraged-proxies-restraint-or-didnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-encouraged-proxies-restraint-or-didnt-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Encouraged Proxies\u2019 Restraint, or Didn\u2019t It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Washington Post<\/em> recently cited<\/a> multiple Lebanese and Iraqi officials as saying that Tehran has been urging restraint from its proxies around the region, ever since US retaliation against those groups\u2019 attacks began in earnest. As further support for this assessment, the article pointed to a two-week lull in those attacks, of which there had previously been more than 150 since the outbreak of war in Gaza, carried out mostly against American forces by Iraqi and Syrian militant groups.<\/p>\n

However, these groups were operating in parallel with the similarly Tehran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have carried out around 50 attacks on commercial vessels in and around the Red Sea, as well as Western naval forces stationed in the region as a guarantor of security. In contrast to the Iraqi and Syrian groups, the Houthi have neither curtailed their belligerent activities nor announced an intention to do so, as Kataib Hezbollah did after claiming responsibility for the cross-border drone attack in Jordan which was more effective than any of its predecessors, killing three US service<\/a> members and sparking the aforementioned retaliation.<\/p>\n

At the time of that announcement, it was widely reported that Kataib Hezbollah had likely been responding to pressure from Iran. But although its attacks did stop and have not yet resumed, the announcement was reversed after one retaliatory strike killed a leader of the militant group. It was also rejected in advance by other members of the umbrella organization known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which in turn is part of a region-wide coalition that the Iranian regime refers to as the \u201cAxis of Resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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#Iranian<\/a> Regime\u2019s Fourfold Objectives in the #GazaCrisis<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/UXfRouGv2b<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) November 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n