Iran president says he comes in peace

The new Irainian president Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in New York for the UN General Assembly and pronounced he wanted peace not war and hoped for better dialogue with the West. If only one could believe him. The reality says otherwise. He may not want war with Israel because he knows it will be devastating for his country and would probably involve the US. But he is still relying on Iran's proxie forces - Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis and Islamic militia in Iraq and Syria - to do Iran's dirty work for him. This is how Iran's strategy works. Let Iran's "forward defence" allies fight Israel while backing them with arms, training and money. But Israel isn't fooled. Its biggest enemy is Iran and if Benjamin Netanyahu can finally defeat Hezbollah and Hamas, neither of which looks likely at the moment, Iran is going to feel very very vulnerable. Which is probably why the new Iranian president is now in New York trying to convince everyone that it's all Israel's fault and he just wants to make Iran into an accepted member of the international community. While it's always a nice change to hear an Iranian leader talking about the need for peaceful dialogue, there are hard men in Iran, notably the leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard who have no truck with peace of any kind and just want to destroy Israel. War between Israel and Iran is, therefore, more, not less, likely at some point in the future, whatever President Puzeshkian says.