Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding a joint press conference in Jerusalem in late August last year after meeting with then-the-time White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner. Jerusalem = AFP Yonhap News
This time it is Israel. Following the US, they attacked Syria, but the target is Iran. In light of the comments of the prime minister and military officials who pointed to Iran behind the explosion of their own cargo ship, the possibility of retaliation is high. War is circulating in the Middle East.
Israel hit Syria on the 28th of last month (local time). The Syrian Air Force issued a statement on the same day, saying, “At 10:16 pm Israeli enemy forces launched an air raid in the direction of the Golan Heights toward parts of the capital Damascus, but they shot down most of the missiles. According to the Syrian Civil War watchdog group, the Syrian Human Rights Observatory, the target of Israeli air strikes is the Jainab region, between the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and southern Damascus, where Hezbollah is stationed.
The Israeli side refused to answer, but under the circumstances, it is likely that this air raid would be a retaliation against it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a public Kan radio interview that was unveiled on the 1st, “It’s obviously an Iranian job. Iran is Israel’s greatest enemy.” I made up my mind to restrain Iran. “We hit every area.” It indicated the possibility of retaliation. It is said that this remark was recorded before the air raid.
It was the United States that recently launched a military operation against Iran. On the 25th of last month, an air raid on a militia facility near the Iranian-backed Syrian eastern Iraqi border. This attack, the first US military action after the inauguration of the Jo Biden government, was carried out on the 15th of the same month. It was to retaliate against attacks and the like.
Unfortunately, on the same day, an unknown explosion occurred on the Israeli company-owned car carrier’MV Helios Ray’ on the way to Singapore from the Gulf waters near Oman. There was no human injury, but the impact was so great that a 1.5m diameter hole was created above the ship’s port and starboard waterlines (the limit line where the hull is submerged). Afterwards, the Israeli Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff of the Army pointed out Iran behind the explosion, and local media reported that the damage was caused by the’ship-attached bomb’.
However, the possibility of expansion is still small. First of all, Iran does not attack. Foreign Ministry spokesman Said Hativjade said at a TV press conference shortly after Prime Minister Netanyahu raised suspicions, “We strongly reject such claims. Gulf security is very important to Iran.” He defined Prime Minister Netanyahu’s words and actions as a fear-inducing act of a person who has an obsession with Iran.
As the United States and Iran agree in principle to restore the Iranian nuclear agreement (JCPOA, Comprehensive Joint Action Plan), which former US President Donald Trump withdrew from, the two countries ahead of the start of negotiations that will be a variable in the reorganization of the Middle East In addition, analysts say that Israel has begun to move strategically to achieve its own interests and to check rival Iran.
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