Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria against what it says are Iranian and Hezbollah military targets AFP/File
France 24: Israeli minister boasts his country has been 'killing Iranians'
An Israeli minister boasted Sunday that his country was the only one that "has been killing Iranians", after tensions between Britain and Iran rose in the Gulf.
Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi's comments to public radio were a reference to Israeli strikes in neighbouring Syria against Iranian and Hezbollah military targets.
But they came after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker on Friday, adding to tensions between Washington and Tehran linked to a 2015 nuclear deal.
Hanegbi accused Iran, Israel's main enemy, of seeking to create "chaos" and "harm freedom of navigation."
Read more ....
WNU Editor: this is one of those admissions that is surprising no one.
Why admit that which was known a few years ago?
ReplyDeleteMaking public what the Iranian govt, Israeli govt and Iranian people already know makes sense.
ReplyDeleteIt ups the ante. They have to respond or lose face and potentially weaken their mandate to rule.
By making a statement Israel cause Iran an unforced error at some point. Over-extend or give Israel a pretext to shoot back.
Of course Israel and Iran are shooting and needling each other all the time. But say Israel wants to bomb some Iranian assets in Syria, but if they did they would receive a lot of condemnation. They will receive condemnation no matter what they do, but it will be a little less if Iran does something Iranian first like shoot into Israel.
Israel want to strike at some concentration of Iranian troops and assets that makes them nervous, so they want to hit it, but need the pretext first. If they do it now and kill 20 or 50 Iranians in one strike, some mouth breathers and monkeys will jump up & down fling shit and crying that "It wasn't proportional."
...
ReplyDeleteOr he was speaking off the cuff on some morning radio show and this isn't a four dimensional chess move that only you can see.
ReplyDeleteOff the cuff or a straight forward provocation.
ReplyDeleteTo some extent it does not matter.
It's like we are fighting a war and no one wants to make it public - LOL
ReplyDelete