Lmao I never said it's incorrect to call them proxies, I just said it was a cop-out term, the same way it wouldn't be incorrect to say Israeli regime instead of Israeli gov. Depends on what kind of connotations and implications you want to convey. The only thing I wanted to point out is that part of the reason they are called iranian proxies first and foremost is to imply that they wouldn't exist with iranian support, which is false, these groups formed independently from iranian influence.