Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi armed groups and the Houthis in Yemen are helping the Islamic Republic widen the conflict and raise its costs
The war’s second ‘ ring of fire ’ is no longer forming around Iran. It is already there. What we are witnessing is not a limited clash between a state under pressure and its immediate enemies, but the gradual emergence of a wider regional confrontation in which Tehran’s allied forces are moving from symbolic solidarity to practical engagement.
In Lebanon, Iraq, and now once again in Yemen, groups aligned with Iran are opening new fronts and making any American or Israeli campaign far more difficult to execute…
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