Analyzing Iran’s strategy in this war reveals that the country is seeking to wage its own war, not a war imposed on it. Iranologist Vardan Voskanyan has written about this.
“This implies transforming a potential limited, short-term, and inexpensive war planned by the adversaries into a potential large-scale, long-term, and costly conflict.
Iran’s very geographic location provides the opportunity for such a war if one of the adversaries is forced to wage it in a vulnerable situation far from its own country, while the other lacks sufficient geographic depth and resources for a protracted war of such a scale.
Another important change is also noticeable. “While Iran’s previous leadership was more moderate on war issues and could be content with symbolic actions aimed at reducing tensions, the current, younger and more energetic military-political team, judging by the facts already recorded, prefers to escalate tensions as much as possible with real, painful blows,” he wrote.