According to reports from the historical group of the Iranian Broadcasting Corporation, nearly eighty years of occupation and genocide cannot be analyzed solely within the framework of territorial disputes or political conflicts. Instead, it must be evaluated in the context of a broader strategy often referred to as ‘Greater Israel.’ Thus, the political and security developments in the region, especially over the past two decades, are not isolated events but rather links in a long-term process aimed at consolidating the supremacy of the Zionist regime and its Western allies, particularly the United States, across geographical, economic, political, and security dimensions in the region.
One of the key texts frequently cited in analyzing this approach is the 1982 article by Oded Yinon titled ‘A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s.’ Within this framework, the emphasis is placed on exploiting ethnic and religious divides in Arab countries and weakening centralized state structures under the pretext of reducing surrounding threats to the Zionist regime, which has been and continues to be a priority for this regime.
From this perspective, the security of the Zionist regime, alongside military deterrence, is defined by altering the geopolitical structure surrounding it and diminishing the capacity of rival states. In other words, the ‘Balkanization’ of the region and the transformation of larger states into smaller, weaker units are perceived as a more favorable environment for consolidating the supremacy of this illegitimate regime.However, this is not the entire reality, as the military and nuclear arsenals of this regime also reflect other field realities. Some Western media, including the British newspaper Daily Express and the Spanish newspaper El Diario, have revealed the military and nuclear arsenal of this regime, including the construction of nuclear bombs with the assistance of France and the United States for decades. According to these reports, the Zionist regime has sought to develop nuclear weapons since the 1950s. Historian Avner Cohen has stated that by the time of the Six-Day War in 1967, this regime had acquired ‘initial but operational nuclear weapons capabilities,’ likely possessing two nuclear bombs.
Although there is limited information regarding the initial weapons of the Zionist regime, particularly concerning the production and number of its arsenals, this regime possesses one of the most dangerous hidden nuclear arsenals in the world. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) estimated in its 2023 report that the Zionist regime has 90 nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, some reports indicate that the volume of this regime’s hidden nuclear arsenal exceeds the publicly announced figures.The stockpiles filled with weapons and possession of nuclear bombs, alongside the Yinon doctrine, indicate decades of effort by the Zionist regime to realize the illusion of a Greater Israel, albeit by fragmenting and diminishing influential regional countries. Trump’s statements in August 2024 regarding the geographical extent of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Zionist regime—claiming that ‘Israel is small, and I have always thought about how to expand it’—along with repeated attacks on occupied areas and southern Lebanon, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Syrian civil war, the Libyan crisis, and the direct assaults by the Zionist regime and the U.S. on the Islamic Republic of Iran in June 2025, confirm the alignment of Washington and Tel Aviv in pursuing this dream.
The U.S. attack on Venezuela on January 3, 2026, was not an impulsive act. This operation should be viewed as part of a broader strategy to rearrange the power order that Trump openly seeks to limit influential countries against the unilateral and expansionist policies of the U.S. in the East. This strategy must be compared with decades of efforts to influence and expand this country alongside the Zionist regime across the globe, particularly in West Asia and North Africa.The establishment of military bases in the surrounding countries of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia, and even China indicates that the Monroe Doctrine is being utilized to achieve the Greater Israel objective with the assistance of the Yinon doctrine. The geographical expansion of the Zionist regime beyond its current fabricated borders, from the Nile to the Euphrates and potentially even beyond to the borders of China and Russia, remains a dream that will undoubtedly remain just that for its architects and global warmongers. It appears that Trump, Netanyahu, and their think tanks have either overlooked or miscalculated a crucial factor in actualizing this illusion: the deterrent power of the Islamic Republic of Iran, both in times of threat and potential war.Forty-seven years of facing and countering all enemy tactics—from the imposition of an eight-year war, creating division among Shia and Sunni at national and transnational levels, employing anti-revolutionary elements and infiltrators, including the Mojahedin, and attempts at incitement, arson, and coups at various times, to the assassination of figures, scientists, and even ordinary people, and the bombing of cities and residential areas—have demonstrated that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the resistance front will never allow the dreams of American and Zionist leaders for the fragmentation and diminishment of major influential countries in the region and globally to materialize, aimed at expanding the occupying and illegitimate Zionist regime.
Today, the resistance front, led by the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Supreme Leader, not only embodies a profound strategy against the unilateralism of hegemonic powers but also unites all countries and nations distinct from this system of domination around the ideology of anti-imperialism and justice.From this perspective the arrangement and establishment of multiple bases in the region and even beyond serve as a double-edged sword; while they may indicate the power of the countries establishing them at certain times any miscalculation by the enemy and aggression against the sacred Islamic Republic of Iran could turn them into suitable targets for retaliatory actions and even resistance missiles. In essence the ‘regional war’ referred to by the Supreme Leader could mean that the Islamic Republic and supportive countries and groups would have free rein to target American interests in the region.
Therefore the realization of Washington and Tel Aviv’s dream of expanding the influence of the occupying Zionist regime which relies heavily on geographical territory and demographic factors as well as oil and water resources for its survival is destined for failure. If the U.S. attempts to initiate a war under any pretext—be it human rights nuclear issues or missile concerns—to operationalize this illusion such a war would undoubtedly ensnare the warmongers both regionally and globally.
