By Athena Papakosta

The Guards of the Revolution by launching attacks against Iraqi, Syrian and Pakistani territory they managed to (un)demonstrate that they have turned into an important regional power in the Middle East.

In just 24 hours, they managed to strike three different countries and for the first time since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, they come to the fore reminding us that the bases of the United States as well as the bases of the Israelis in Tel Aviv and Haifa are within the range of their ballistic missiles.

On Monday, the Revolutionary Guards fired a volley of rockets against targets in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan but also in Idlib in northern Syria, which is controlled by Islamist insurgents. On Tuesday afternoon, there was a similar attack against him Pakistanin the southwest of the country, a breath away from the border with Iran, in the province of Baluchistan.

Their target was two bases of the Sunni armed organization “Jaish Al-Adl” which has launched attacks against Iran in the past, the last one taking place last December.

The Pakistana country of nearly 232 million and a nuclear power, called it an unprovoked and flagrant violation of its sovereignty with Islamabad recalling its ambassador to Tehran warning that it would retaliate.

A similar stance is taken by the Iraq which also recalled its ambassador from Iran, condemning the attack with 11 ballistic missiles on its territory at a time when Tehran showed that at this point on the map it can launch precision strikes and very close to Erbil International Airport where United States forces are stationed.

At the same time, as the British BBC points out, the strikes in Idlib in northern Syria near the border with Israel show Tel Aviv and the attack attributed to it on Christmas Day, when the general of the Revolutionary Guards, Sayed Razi, was killed. Mousavi.

The Middle East looks like a minefield in which pro-Iranian rebels Houthis of Yemen they are playing with fire. Despite the US pounding, Yemeni rebels within three 24 hours attacked the US-owned merchant ship Gibraltar Eagle in the Gulf of Aden, under the flag of Malta Greek-owned ship “Zografia” in the Red Sea while, they unsuccessfully attempted to hit her with a missile and the American destroyer USS Laboon.

And according to the UK’s Merchant Shipping Authority, last night, a ship in the maritime area off Yemen was hit 60 nautical miles southeast of Aden, resulting in a fire.

Remaining vigilant, the United States re-designates the Houthis as a terrorist organization as a member of the rebels’ supreme council said that “the direct conflict with the US is a positive thing because the United States brought destruction and poverty to our country.”

And if all of the above is not enough for one to understand that the margins for even one mistake are narrowing, it is enough to turn one’s gaze back to Israel and its northern border with Lebanon.

Israel’s army chief of staff, Herji Halevi, last night described the possibility of a war “within the next few months” in the north as the al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, said it had fired 20 rockets from southern Lebanon. into northern Israel and Hezbollah continues to conduct daily operations against Israel along the border.