Israel has bombarded without rest they will go for more than ten days, until this Tuesday, President Donald Trump has imposed a high fire between the two staunch enemies – after having ordered an attack against Iranian nuclear facilities himself. Tehran's allies, integrated into the so -called 'resistance axis', have not acted, beyond condemning attacks and warning of the consequences.
The members of the axis, the vast majority of Chii armed movements of the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula, have not taken reprisals against Israel, or against US interests in the area after the US intervened in the conflict last weekend, despite having threatened to do so.
In this context, it has been evident that Israel has made considerably weakening the axis of resistance with military offensives against the Palestinian group Hamás in Gaza, the Libanese Movement Hizbulá and the Hutíes rebels of Yemen. The first two have faced the Hebrew army on the ground and have been discharged; While the one who was the main allied government of Tehran, that of President Bashar al Asad, fell last December.
Tehran has only seen in the contest the “Zionist enemy”, after the axis has gradually lost its power of action and deterrence since the beginning of the Israeli punishment war against the Gaza Strip in October 2023 and its repercussions throughout the region.
Hizbulá stays out
The Chií Lebanese group has been very weakened after facing Israel last autumn and having suffered hard blows, first, the murder of its leader, Hasan Nasralá. In addition to having killed the maximum leader of the movement, Israel has also ended most of its commanders and a large number of combatants, and has reduced its military capabilities.
Despite having sealed a high fire agreement last November, the Israeli army continues to bombard Hizbulá's objectives in a timely manner in southern Lebanon and, even, in the capital, Beirut. During their campaign in Iran, the Israeli hunting have not stopped attacking southern Lebanon, from where Shiite militiamen have not sent projectiles to the other side of the border in support of Iran.
When Israel launched its offensive against Tehran on the 13th, Hizbulá said it would remain on the sidelines. After the US attack on the night of June 21 to 22, he expressed in a statement his “full solidarity with the Islamic Republic, her leaders and her people”, but said that Iran could face the aggression with their own strength and “make the American and Zionist enemy feel the bitter defeat.”
The Lebanese political and military movement belongs to the same branch of Islam as the Iranian Ayatolás, and has always received the support of the Islamic Republic. Israel has accused Iran for decades of providing weapons to Hizbulá and, until the end of last year, those weapons reached Lebanon through Syria, a route that has been interrupted by the changes in the second country.
Syria, in crossfire
Iran lost an important ally and an outstanding base of operations in the Middle East with the overthrow of President Sirio Bashar al Asad last December. Syria was not only one of Iran's few allied countries in the Arab world, but was the only border with Israel in which there was Iranian military presence, something that raised many misgivings in Tel Aviv.
The Israeli army often hit the Iranian military advisors and Shiite militias who participated in the conflict in Syria (2011-2024) on the side of the Al Asad regime, and continued to attack Syria even after the fall of the Al Asad regime.
Since Bombardear Iran began, Israel has not carried out attacks on Syrian soil, where it does keep its troops deployed in the south. The new Syrian government does not like Tel Aviv, but has cut relations with Iran and is no longer part of the resistance axis. President Suní Ahmed al Sharaa has not spoken about the confrontation between Israel and Iran, despite the fact that his territory is in crossfire and Iranian projectiles have flown over the skies of Syria and Israeli hunting, too.
Iraqi militias threaten the US
Another country where Iran has a great influence and presence is the neighbor Iraq. A part of Chii Iraqi militias have links with Tehran and, several times in the past, have supported the axis of the resistance attacking the greatest ally of Israel in the region: United States.
The Proiraní Milicia Kataib Hizbulá, one of Iraq's most powerful, had warned Washington that he would attack his “interests and bases” in the Middle East if he intervened in the conflict between Israel and Iran. However, they have not launched any attack after the US hit the nuclear facilities that Israel could not reach with its weapons.
Kataib Hizbulá was declared terrorist group in the US after repeatedly attacked the Iraqi bases where there are US military personnel, in response to Iranian commander's murder Qasem Soleimaní In a selective bombardment ordered by Washington in Baghdad in early 2020. At that time, Iran launched projectiles against facilities with US presence in the neighboring country, previously notifying Iraq.
According to analyst Michael Knights of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an expert in armed groups backed by Iran, Iraqi militias “are limited both by their own inherent caution, as well as by Tehran's apparent instructions to maintain a low profile and preserve their assets.” Knights believes that, if Tehran is very weakened by the Israeli offensive, “he will need his friends in Iraq more than ever” for logistics reasons and, “perhaps, as a refuge if the leaders of the regime end up having to flee.”
Yemen hutis do not cease their attacks
Since the beginning of the brutal Israeli offensive against Gaza – in which more than 56,000 people have died – the Shiite rebels of Yemen have launched missiles and drones against the Jewish state uninterruptedly, although the frequency and power of the attacks have varied. In the first week of the Israeli offensive against Iran, they only launched a missile.
Most projectiles from Yemen have been intercepted and have not caused victims, except for some exceptions. However, the hutis have caused greater damage boycotting navigation in the Red Sea with their attacks against vessels that travel on this route of great importance, especially those linked to Israel or the US. After Trump ordered against Iranian facilities, the rebel movement (which controls large parts of Yemen) said their forces are “ready to attack US ships and warships in the Red Sea.”
The hutis have seen their military capabilities diminished, although they have not been beaten as hard as other members of the resistance axis. The Israeli army regularly informs the bombardment of objectives of the armed movement in response to the launch of projectiles from Yemen. Washington also developed a bombing campaign against Yemen, which also caused numerous civil victims, before Trump announced a high fire in May.
Despite the blows they have suffered, the hutis have not been discharged, but they would have great difficulties if they will no longer support them. Tel Aviv accuses the Shií movement (whose official name is Ansar Allah) of receiving Iranian manufacturing weapons – very miles, drones and other weapons – and being a “tentacle” of the Ayatolás in the Arabian Peninsula.
Hamas, isolated and decimated in Gaza
The Palestinian Movement Hamas has condemned Israel's offensive against Iran, but has not taken letters in the matter, since it is very weakened and isolated in Gaza after more than 20 months of Israeli attacks and fighting with its troops in the coastal enclave. “We declare our solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran before the brutal Zionist aggression, which is mainly due to their support for the Palestinian people and their great support for their honorable resistance,” said his armed arm, the Al Qasam brigades.
Israel has accused Iran of military and economically supporting Hamas, who is Suní, but shares the same ideology that Iran and other groups of the axis with respect to the Jewish state. Since October 2023, Tehran has maintained a challenging tone against Israeli leaders for Gaza genocide, but has not directly intervened in the conflict; He has faced Tel Aviv by Hamas – good for the affront suffered when Israel murdered the political leader of the Palestinian group on Iranian soil. Ismail Haniyeh died in an attack in his Tehran accommodation in July 2024 and both Hamas and will be responsible for Israel.
During the operation 'León that rises' against Iran, the Israeli army has not stopped attacking objectives of Hamas and other Islamist groups in Gaza, as reported almost daily. Military leaders have assured that they will not end war in the Palestinian enclave until Hamas is “eliminated.”
