Coming back to proxy use, Who gave Sulemani the right to hire recruits from Pakistan and make them fight in Syria? Did we ever recruit any Iranis to fight Pakistani wars? This shows he was the coward who couldnt fight his own wars and had to rely on Lebanese and Iraqis,Afghanis and Paksitani Shias to fight his own war in Syria
There were Iranian troops fighting in Syria as well. In all, the governmental camp relied much less on foreign fighters than the opposition. It's not a question of cowardice, for in this regard few can measure up to Qasem Soleimani's generation of war veterans, whose selflessness and courage during the eight-year imposed war against Saddam has rather been rare in modern times. It is about reaching your objectives in a cost effective manner and avoid getting stuck into quagmires.
Sulemani was a destabilizing factor in the region . His use of Lebanese proxies, Afghanies, Pakistanis in syria war created further instability not only in syria but once those proxies returned back to their respective countries. It was like a disaster waiting to happen. A fuse about to be lit where these proxies would have started destabilizing their own countries out of their own will or own Iran Behalf
Are there examples of Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan having gotten destabilized by Iranian-trained forces upon their return back home?
If anything then Hezbollah has been a most stabilizing factor in Lebanon. You might want to note that Hezbollah is the only major armed non-state actor never to have turned its guns on the national Lebanese army. And it has been pragmatic in striving to preserve Lebanon's delicate internal balance of power.
As for Afghanistan, most Afghan recruits have been residents of Iran. And those returning to Afghanistan haven't destabilized the country. Even the Taleban regime is coexisting peacefully with them and there have been no clashes.
Ever since Soleimani death, Iran is on defensive, The aggressive posture of Soleimani and IRGC has been tamed. Iran Political leadership has curtailed the aggressive proxy war posture and adopted somewhat defensive posture.
Iran's posture can't be considered aggressive since Iran was responding to attacks on her allies. Moreover in both Iraq and Syria, Iran entered the scene upon official request of local governments.
What happened is that Iran reached its objectives in these theaters. Hence there's no longer a need to pursue further large scale military action there.
Barring Yemen (Even where the they are about to expel Iranian diplomat), Iran is not aggressively meddling or controlling groups in Iran or Syria.
Iran's relationship with her allies in Iraq and Syria is at the same level as it used to be.
Recruiting from Afghanistan and Pakistan has stopped on the surface.
Because there is no need for that at the present time. Iran vanquished its enemies in the Syrian and Iraq wars, which by their nature called for involvement of Iranian-led allies.
Solemaini was a war hawk like John Bolton of America or that group who advocated and pushed America to war in Iraq.
Did Soleimani ever advocate preventive war upon bogus, manufactured pseudo-evidence like the US regime vis a vis Iraq in 2003?
After that lot passed, Exisiting Irani Leadership is like Obama and Trump, where they wanna wind down external wars and focus internally exclusively.
If Iran's allies come under attack again, then the present Iranian leadership will rescue them similar to how Tehran proceeded some years ago.
Hence the overture with Saudia and UAE. The peacetalks that are happening through back channel contacts
These were initiated at the request of the mentioned PGCC regimes. Because they failed at dismantling the Iranian-sponsored Axis of Resistance through the proxy wars they helped trigger at the behest of NATO, so they're trying to bide their time at the current juncture. My guess is that nothing very big will come out of the present talks.
Solemaini death was beneficial for moderate elements in iranian establishment as it allowed them to push warhawks against the wall and give peace a chance.
Could you perhaps name these elements? Who are the war hawks and moderates in the Iranian establishment?
The last 2 years speak for itself. Do we hear the constant proxy war drums that we used to hear during his lifetime? No
The last two years have been quite peaceful ones for Iran's allies in the region. Hence why there's been no requirement for military action on Iran's part.