There are one hundred and thirty active wars lit around the world today and three outstanding men can be linked to many of them.
But President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has emerged the best tactician and strategist of the threesome. Always playing the victim, he just pulled off a major tactical link between the two most active and devastating conflicts: the US-Iranian and the Russo-Ukrainian wars. He did so by attacking commercial Iranian vessels in the Caspian Sea, hitting the Anna, killing an Iranian sailor and injuring others.
Zelensky said the vessels were legitimate targets because they were allegedly transporting military cargo. In his illogical sense, the attacks were retaliatory because, by supplying Shahed drones and military technology to Russia, Iran had indirectly attacked Ukraine and had therefore become a legitimate target. The overconfident Zelensky ordered Iran to stop supporting Russia and not to think of retaliation.
But Iran, which has successfully stood up against the mighty United States, has no plans to lay still. Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, responded: “Any attack on Iran always comes at a cost, and that remains true today; the US and Israel are well aware of this. Ukraine, too, may soon come to understand that Iran does not let actions go unanswered.”
