A day after the attacks on Iraq and Syria, Iran also fired missiles at Pakistan late on Tuesday night.
Pakistan is upset by this. Expelling Iran’s ambassador and immediately recalling its diplomats from Tehran.
Now Pakistan also carried out an airstrike on Iran on Wednesday, the next day of the Iranian attack and claimed to have destroyed terrorist hideouts.
Iran had already claimed that it had destroyed two bases of Balochi terrorist group Jaish al-Adl in Pakistan with “missile and drone” strikes. Amidst all this the question arises that why did Iran attack Pakistan, Iraq and Syria at the same time?
Mossad is the root of fights and attacks
According to Anant Mishra, visiting fellow at the International Center for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales, Iran’s missile strikes on Jaish al-Adl positions in Panjgur, Pakistan, are a result of Pakistan’s Sunni Salafist militant group’s close ties with Israel’s spy agency Mossad. There have been reasons.
Speaking to Sputnik India, Mishra said that the Iranian missile attack against Jaish al-Adl is not aimed at waging war against Pakistan but Tehran wants to eliminate Mossad bases and American bases. He said that Iranian attacks in Iraq and Syria have also been carried out on similar lines.
Jaish has attacked an Iranian city
Let us tell you that in December 2023, Iranian Interior Minister Ahmed Vahidi had said that at least 11 Iranian police officers were killed in an attack on a police station in Rusk city near the Pakistan border. That attack was claimed by Jaish al-Adl in a brief statement posted on its Telegram channel, AFP reported.
Earlier on July 23 last year, four Iranian policemen were killed while patrolling the border areas in an attack by Jaish al-Adl. Jaish al-Adl, also known as the “Army of Justice”, is a Sunni terrorist group established in 2012, which operates largely in Pakistan. According to the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Jaish al-Adl is the most active and influential Sunni terrorist group operating in Sistan-Baluchestan.
Jaish al-Assad receives support from Mossad
According to Mishra, “There is a common connection between Iran’s operation against Jaish al-Adl and its missile attacks in Iraq and Syria a day earlier and this connection is linked to Israel’s spy agency Mossad. The terrorist organization Jaish al-Adl, formerly known as Jundallah, is supported by the Jewish state’s intelligence agency.
Message to all three countries simultaneously
Furthermore, Mishra said that Pakistan is keeping Sunni Salafist groups like Jaish al-Adl alive for its own benefit. After all, one should not forget that Iran is a Shia-majority state while Pakistan follows Sunni customs and beliefs. He said that by attacking all three countries, Iran has simultaneously tried to send a message that wherever its interests are attacked, it will not shy away from counter-attacking. Tehran has long been saying that Jaish al-Adl has been using Pakistani soil for terrorist activities against it.
attacks on syria and iraq
Iran defended its missile strikes in Iraq and Syria, saying they were a “targeted operation” and “appropriate punishment” against those who violated the Islamic republic’s security, AFP reports. In Syria, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the attacks on alleged Islamic State targets were in response to recent attacks in Iran. On January 3, suicide bombers attacked a crowd gathered near the tomb of late General Qassem Soleimani in Kerman, killing 90 people and injuring many. Later the Islamic State group took responsibility for this attack.
“The attack is said to have been carried out in response to identifying the Daesh terrorist group’s gathering places in Syrian areas and then destroying them,” Tehran news reported. Daesh also carried out two bomb blasts in Iran last month, in which 100 people were killed.
Iran’s attack in the Kurdistan region of Iraq was carried out by targeting the bases of Israeli spy agency Mossad. It is said that Mossad used to carry out its intelligence services and operations in the area from the same base.
Crisis deepens in Middle East, what impact will it have on oil?
Iran’s latest attacks in Syria, Iraq and Pakistan could potentially further escalate tensions in the Middle East, which is already troubled by Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Hamas is a Palestinian militant group backed by Iran. On the other hand, the US and Britain have launched an offensive in the Red Sea region against Iran-backed Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who have been attacking commercial ships and oil tankers for the past few days. Due to this crisis, the fear of increasing oil prices has become stronger.