IRGC Commander Hossein Salami remarked that “a power… has been shaped in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and elsewhere, and the enemy is mindful that any new war may pose a full-blown threat against the Zionist regime [i.e. Israel] and put it in the path to an irreversible collapse”. Salami went on to content that “a number of U.S. allies in the region were encouraging the U.S. to wage a war [on Iran], but they realized that a war with Iran would threaten their political systems, so they remained silent”. He added that “I am confident that today, the Zionists and regional allies are not interested in a war, because they know that the geography of such war would be broad, and they know the result”.