Since November 8, 2023, ISIS has carried out three terrorist attacks against Syrian army headquarters, in which more than 50 people have been martyred and wounded. The Ministry of Interior of Pakistan has issued a statement warning that ISIS forces are trying to ignite sectarian conflicts in this country by carrying out terrorist activities against Shia and religious minorities.

The Turkish government also announced on December 30, 2023, during the simultaneous operations of the anti-terrorism department of the police and the Turkish intelligence agency, that189 “suspected of collaborating with the ISIS terrorist group” were arrested in 37 provinces of the country.

In the latest action, ISIS elements carried out a suicide attack on the anniversary of Martyr Soleimani in Kerman, as a result of which dozens of people were martyred and hundreds of people were injured.

The terrorist operations of ISIS take place in a situation where the Zionist regime and the United States take the most “benefit” from the operations mentioned above and the expansion of the depth and scope of ISIS movements. This is while terrorist actions against popular groups and operations against military headquarters, as well as attacks on Muslims in cities and regions that are considered the geographical area of ​​Islamic resistance, have no achievements for ISIS, which lacks coherent organizations and previous structures.

As mentioned, the Zionist regime benefits the most from the terrorist actions of ISIS. The performance of ISIS and the Zionist regime in the region and the Islamic world shows that despite their ideological differences, they have “similar features and common goals and strategies,” as if ISIS and the Zionist regime have the same political and discursive origin.

Of course, many proofs and evidence have been observed in recent years that clearly prove that ISIS and other takfiri and terrorist groups receive finance, intelligence, and security provided by the criminal regime of Israel in various ways, directly and indirectly.

Here, the purpose is not to enumerate the list of cooperation between ISIS and the Zionist regime and their similarities. Still, the main point is to emphasize the fact that the performance and actions of ISIS in the region, even in a situation where this group no longer has an appreciable structure that wants long-term goals and to define a strategy for itself, or to seek to establish a so-called Islamic caliphate as in the past, is in the direction that the Zionist regime will take the most “benefit” from it!

In fact, the “roots” and “calculation bases” of ISIS activities have a very significant relationship with the calculations of the Zionist regime in the region. It is natural for a regime that defines a part of maintaining its political existence and survival based on the crisis in the surrounding environment and the region to look at terrorist and extremist movements of any kind as a “strategic opportunity.” It should not be forgotten that the Israeli regime, due to its “garrison” nature, is an extremely “crisis-driven” and “violence-maker” regime.

In any case, although ISIS has lost a large part of its existence, its small cells continue to carry out terrorist operations in the region and the Islamic world. The presence and activity of the survival of ISIS and other terrorist groups in the region are strongly linked with the “need” that the US and the Zionist regime have for their actions as a “challenging force.”

The Zionist regime uses ISIS and movements like it from two perspectives as strategic-security and an intellectual-discourse tools to advance its strategy, to threaten the resistance groups and the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and to engage them (the same thing that the Israeli regime wants).

In fact, what has caused the existence of ISIS, even though it is scattered, is the need of the Zionist regime and the United States. The fact that ISIS has not carried out a single operation against the usurping regime of Israel and the United States is a point worth pondering in this context.

In any case, the Zionist regime and ISIS have many hidden relations. The Zionists use ISIS forces in various ways to “weaken the resistance front,” which is an obvious and proven issue.

Therefore, the question is, a group that has lost a large part of its human and military capabilities and in other areas and its remaining members are less than 10 thousand people, is not a government and a recognized political unit of the government that has official government and international interactions; it lacks intelligence and security organizations, satellite systems and spy tools; it lacks media in the sense of inclusiveness; how has it really persisted until today and carried out actions and operations that require “complex intelligence and security designs”?! What does it mean that ISIS is not a threat to the Zionist regime, and this regime does not consider ISIS as a severe threat to its security doctrines? Why does ISIS not declare Gaza and the West Bank as the land of Jihad? Why has ISIS not even once pointed its weapon at the Zionist regime and declared jihad against it? Why does ISIS not send its fighters to Gaza? And dozens of other questions.

In conclusion, it should be emphasized that the Zionist regime seeks to weaken its regional rivals and enemies based on its aggressive national security strategy to develop and, reduce and eliminate its security threats and challenges. Based on this, as “aggressive neo-realists” such as “Mearsheimer” emphasize, governments use different tools to develop territory, achieve hegemony, and improve their security, and in this way, reducing the security of the opposite actors, hitting security strikes to the opposite actor and weakening them are considered common tools.

By adopting this strategy, the Zionist regime is taking advantage of the remnants of Salafist-Takfiri currents, such as ISIS, in the region. Through them, by carrying out security attacks, it is trying to “weaken” the state and non-state actors in front of it, especially the resistance front.