This month's air strikes between Iran and Pakistan in Balochistan mark a significant escalation in the region's ongoing conflict. Tehran's recent targeting of Baluch insurgent camps in Pakistan's Baluchistan province reflects Iran's long-term strategic aims and comments on Pakistan's state affairs. The missile attacks by Iran, which targeted anti-Iran elements in Pakistan, were met with retaliation by Pakistan for the first time, indicating a shift in the dynamic between the two nations. Experts, including Yossi Mansharof from the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, suggest that Pakistan's response has demonstrated the limits of Iran's power, with Mansharof noting, 'Pakistan showed you can attack Iran.' Former Iranian diplomats have criticized the strikes by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), suggesting they could diminish Iran's regional standing. Amidst these tensions, Iran and Pakistan are moving to reinstate their ambassadors after both were recalled due to the crisis sparked by the missile strikes.
“Such strikes deliver only a single blow to terrorist groups without eradicating them,” Former Iranian diplomats have criticised Iran's recent missile attacks in Pakistan, warning they could weaken the country's regional stature. https://t.co/neDbjQzOeY
Iran and Pakistan are set to reinstate their respective ambassadors today, after both had been recalled due to a recent crisis caused by cross border missile strikes. RT spoke to former Pakistani Foreign Secretary and Permanent Representative to the UN, Shamshad Ahmad Khan https://t.co/LMw5LrZ6ma
At the height of the courageous anti-government protests in Iran in late 2019, the IRGC brought in foreign terrorists to augment the murderous crackdown on the pro-freedom protesters. Now look at all the military-age men streaming across our border… https://t.co/irtFiuBMm5
A week after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) conducted missile attacks in Pakistan, former Iranian diplomats have criticised the strikes, warning they could weaken Iran's regional standing https://t.co/gqRSyckG7u
"Pakistan’s decision to strike back surprised the regime in Tehran. Iranian diplomats scrambled to point out that Iran does not intend to make an enemy of its nuclear armed Muslim neighbour. Pakistan’s pushback demonstrated the limits of Iran’s capabilities and Tehran’s strategy…
“It points at the limits of Iran’s power. Pakistan showed you can attack Iran” - Yossi Mansharof, Shia expert at the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy. https://t.co/AmML3TgIPi
The recent missile attacks are not the first time #Iran has violated #Pakistan’s airspace and has killed anti- #Iran elements in #Pakistan, but it is the first known time that Pakistan has retaliated, highlights @kritimshah https://t.co/6aLWTzI57r
#Tehran’s targeting of camps run by #Baluch insurgent group in #Pakistan’s #Baluchistan province was both a question of #Iran’s long-term aims and a commentary on #Pakistan’s continuing spiral into a nothing state, argues @KabirTaneja https://t.co/6mgYIhKVRT
The air strikes exchanged between Iran and Pakistan this month in Balochistan were not the region’s first experience of armed conflict. For years, the Baloch people have experienced violent repression at the hands of the Pakistani state. https://t.co/PYjpuDkPFA