Assassination of Nasrallah: How will the pro-Iranian axis respond?

"The response will come at the right time," Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs, stated on Sunday when questioned by journalists about his country's response to the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. This classic phrase from Iranian rhetoric often signals that, in the eyes of the Islamic Republic, the priority is not revenge but politics. However, in addition to the most important figure of the "axis of resistance," Nasrallah, Friday's strike also killed General Abbas Nilforoushan, the deputy operations chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Tehran's ideological army. Therefore, without a serious retaliation, the axis risks losing what remains of its prestige.But the priority for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime, whose coffers are empty and which seems obsessed only with its...