Alyaksandr Lukashenka remains silent regarding events in the Middle East and the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He has used similar tactics before – after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and after the US evacuated Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela. Radio Svaboda political commentators Yury Drakakhrust and Valer Karbalevich discuss the reasons for this restraint and what it means in comments to Belsat.