aq, Syria and other countries. They had felt they could inflame wars but they didn’t believe it would to Tehran’s own doorstep. Even after the Israeli strikes in 2024, which followed Iran’s attacks on Israel, the IRGC felt secure. It saw the talks with the Trump administration and assumed all was fine. It even likely saw the tensions grow on June 11 and 12 with reports of US State Department personnel preparing to evacuate Iraq and other countries. However, Salami and his commanders felt nothing would happen. After years of threatening Israel, they felt that they would never pay a price.
Iran often accused Israel and the US of being “arrogant powers.” In 2020 Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani described the US as "the wicked hands of the global arrogance, with the usurper Zionist regime as the mercenary.” Despite the regime’s claims that others were arrogant, it was Iran’s arrogance at assuming it could terrorize the entire Middle East and spread proxy wars across the region and not face any pushback. It must have noted that fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 and wondered if it had miscalculated. However, it didn’t seem to heed the lesson.
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