you admit it just one line above
Nothing of the sort.
This is a pathetic try from your side to undermine Iranian allies. What does Hezbollah and its mission have to do with our martyrs? We are one people, their martyrs are our martyrs and vise verse.
That is a general problem among resistance forces. You cannot expect to arm each and every border Guard with heavy weapons but as much as the limited budget allows, they arm thsemselves, plus, the attacks on our border guards are different in nature. The attackers are terrorists and usually use surprising tactics.
I mean, it's enough to take a look at the frequency of lethal terrorist attacks at Iran's borders. They are actually few and far between. Iran has already spent many millions building a wall and fortifications along the border with Pakistan. But here's the point, no matter how much you invest in equipment, infrastructures and training, casualties won't be reducible to zero especially if terrorists enjoy active support from the global powers to be.
Iran must and will keep prioritizing all aspects of deterrence against any hypothetical classic form of aggression by powerful state actors, as that is the paramount type of threat. Meaning, more investment in missiles, more investment in underground bases, more investment in small navy craft, more investment in regional allies, more investment in the nuclear program. Failure to expand and keep these assets up to date will prove fatal.
Parallel to the above, ground forces including border guards will see their training and equipment improved gradually. Considering defensive priorities, budget and sheer size of Iran's border guard corps, this modernization program won't be completed before years. It's quite normal and has nothing to do with ideology.
Is it not ironic when supposed ultra-nationalists align on NATO and zionist demands for Iran to cease supporting allies in the region? By defintion a nationalist will be expected to celebrate any form of external influence wielded by Iran, rather than to endorse talking points devised in the psychological warfare departments of Washington and Tel Aviv. For HezbOllah to be functional ie capable of standing up to the common zionist enemy, HezbOllah needs this type of support, absence of which will invite zionist aggression and potential loss of a key ally for Iran.
Either you support an active regional role for Iran or you don't, if not then you're at odds with the defining criteria of nationalism (especially in the Iranian cultural framework); and if you do, you will eventually come to the understanding that Iran has been acting both according to national interest and foundational principles of the Revolution at the same time, since these two happen to overlap given the historic conjuncture.
To those who ask why don't HezbOllah come secure Iran's territorial boundaries, they actually did. HezbOllah gave thousands of martyrs pinning down and destroying Daesh in Syria and Iraq. The declared next stop for Daesh would have been Iran, so our brothers from HezbOllah contributed with their blood to preventing these terrorists from reaching Iranian land.
And by the way, from Jaish ol-Zolm's perspective the recent attack on the southeastern border was operationally speaking a failure. Something you won't learn by consulting oppositionist sources, is that the terrorists were assigned to enter Iranian soil and conduct an attack well within Iran's borders. The intended target was not the border post. However Iranian forces scored a win by successfully forcing the terrorist party to retreat before it could infiltrate the country.
