The other aspect of the Zahedan crime is that it shows early signs of a mutual war of terror, terror backed from outside in retaliation for the terror that Iran is accused of backing in Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. It is a military action with the same formula of terrorism that seeks to kindle a sectarian war and sow the seeds of divisions between Sunnis and Shiites and secessionist movements. If this impetration is correct, particularly because Iran itself said that these acts are engineered outside the country, we would be seeing a new chapter in the regional war, war of terror by proxy. Where would these new conflicts lead? Are they capable of halting terrorism through deterrent terrorism? Or would they only deepen the conflict and prepare the ground for a more dangerous and more comprehensive war?
