Iran has been bombed, seen United Nations sanctions reimposed, and its economy has collapsed further into the red this year. But its theocracy so far hasn’t taken any major action to halt the slide, restart crucial nuclear negotiations with the West, nor fully prepare for possible further hostilities with Israel and the United States.

Axar.az, citing AP, reports that according to an Analysis published on the news platform, in the past, Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei heralded the benefit of Tehran’s “strategic patience” in confronting its enemies.

Now, however, concern is growing that patience has slipped into paralysis as Iran’s partners in its self-described “Axis of Resistance” have been devastated, and there’s no overt sign of materiel support from either China or Russia.

“One of the harms and dangers facing the country is precisely this state of neither war nor peace, which isn’t good,” Khamenei himself warned in September.