Pakistan May Have Just Shown the World How to Deal with Iran

Last week, Iran fired missiles into Syria, Pakistan, and Iraqi Kurdistan—claiming to target Islamic State affiliates in the first two, and, less credibly, a “Mossad headquarters” in the third. Iraq and Syria are both countries whose governments are beholden to Tehran, and in which Iranian forces and proxy militias have an overwhelming presence. But Pakistan, a nuclear power, is a very different case. Islamabad responded with aerial strikes on the portion of Baluchistan that lies within the Islamic Republic—to parallel the ayatollahs’ attack on Baluch groups in Pakistan.