Hosein Aghayi, a member of the editorial board of Iran International, referring to recent U.S. attacks on southern Iran, said that these attacks can be considered the initial waves of an operation aimed at weakening and destroying the Islamic Republic’s air defenses. According to him, these operations could be intended to facilitate the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz or to prepare the field for a broader aerial and even ground operation.

He said that in the recent attacks, the United States used low-cost drones more than anything else in order to place the Islamic Republic’s air defenses between shutting down their radars and increasing the ability of drones to penetrate, or keeping them on and the risk of identification and attack.

Aghayi also said that Trump is trying to end the war at lower cost for the United States by giving diplomacy an opportunity and maintaining a military threat.