# Daily short comments

By [wangmingqing](https://paragraph.com/@wangmingqing) · 2024-08-23

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Ali Mohammad Naini, spokesperson and deputy public relations officer of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Iran will not take action "hastily" and the waiting time "may be long."

When asked when Iran would respond to the assassination of Haniyeh, Naini said that Israel thought it could make up for its failure to achieve goals on the battlefield by assassinating Haniyeh, "but on the contrary, the resistance front became stronger."

He said Israelis were now "paying the price" for the assassinations because they did not know when and how they would be responded to, which would make Israelis "live in instability." "Time is on our side and the wait for a response can be lengthy."

It seems that Iran will not retaliate anytime soon.

But Iran will still continue to threaten Israel verbally to achieve the effect of psychological warfare.

However, for psychological warfare to be effective, the enemy must believe that Iran can fight, and that it can fight hard.

Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that when the outside world does not expect Iran to retaliate, Iran will launch a surprise attack to maximize the effect.

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If Iran really retaliates in the end, then I can actually understand Iran's current approach. After all, on the one hand, it is conducting psychological warfare, and on the other hand, it requires more time to prepare. After all, the Iranian government has just changed, and internal adjustments are coupled with clean-up. It takes a lot of time.

But it would be disappointing if Iran did not retaliate in the end.

Kyodo News reported that Araghchi, the former ambassador to Japan who took office as the foreign minister of Iran's reformist Pezeshizyan government on the 21st, said that relations between Japan and Iran will be strengthened at all levels.

Araghchi proposed a foreign policy that focuses on East Asia and emphasized that "Japan occupies a prominent position in our priorities."

This retaliation is not yet retaliatory, but it has begun to talk about strengthening relations with Japan.

Iran's new foreign minister, who was previously Iran's ambassador to Japan, said from the very beginning that he wanted to strengthen relations with Japan. Although this is not surprising, it also shows that this new Iranian foreign minister is immature.

A mature foreign minister should not let himself get used to the inertia of the original trajectory, but should give priority to national strategic interests.

Of course, Iran's new president is originally a reformist and has been seeking diplomatic contact with the West. It seems that Iran's new foreign minister intends to use Japan as a point of contact to reopen the window for contact with the West.

But this is obviously just Iran's unilateral fantasy and a manifestation of the immaturity of Iran's new foreign minister.

Anyway, I don’t have any expectations for this Iranian government now, so I don’t care.

Trump installed bulletproof glass for his first outdoor rally since the assassination attempt.

Trump does have to be wary of a second assassination.

In addition, from an electoral perspective, installing more bulletproof glass will make it easier to remind voters that Trump survived the catastrophe.

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Otherwise, it feels like voters have somewhat forgotten about Trump’s survival.

Everyone is very busy now, and the heat passes easily.

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