Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi said Tuesday that Israel will continue to launch attacks to “destroy” Iran’s capabilities, including its civilian nuclear program.
“Operations to destroy Iranian capabilities will continue, in any arena and at any time, and the operational plans against Iran’s nuclear program will continue to be developed and improved,” Kohavi said.
While the IDF has not launched an overt attack inside Iran, the Israelis frequently carry out covert attacks against the Iranian nuclear program. Most recently, Iran has accused Israel of attacking an Iranian nuclear warehouse with a drone in June. The attack damaged equipment belonging to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Iran is calling on the nuclear watchdog to condemn the incident.
Over the past few months, Kohavi has repeatedly said the IDF is “accelerating” plans to attack Iran’s nuclear program, signaling that Israel is planning a more overt operation inside the country.
Israel is also constantly bombing Syria, which it frames as part of its attacks on Iran in the region. But these airstrikes typically kill Iraqi Shia militia fighters and Syrian government troops.
Kohavi’s threats come as the US is calling on Iran to return to stalled negotiations to revive the nuclear deal. Israel launched an attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility in April when the talks first began, a clear attempt at sabotaging the attempt at diplomacy. The US never condemned the incident, giving the Israelis tacit support to keep up these covert operations.
At what point will Iran hit back? Probably when the last hopes for the Iran Deal fall through. Israel will then get what it thinks it wants.
It won’t like what it gets, as the world turns on Israel for the resulting energy and economic crisis. Never the US of course, but near everyone else including Europe.
Iran will hit back when they have their own nuclear umbrella, waging a multi decade war, of attrition, with slow steady missile strikes and commando incursions on Israel’s northern border. Both sides will loose,human misery will be multiplied.
But in the meantime the little parasite just promised to continue with their state sponsorship of terrorism. Your exaggerated fiction is nothing more than decades long neocon talking points.
“Iran will hit back when they have their own nuclear umbrella”
Which, if their current policy on nuclear weapons, as announced by them and verified continuously by IAEA , continues, will be never.
Do you really believe them?
There is no evidence to the contrary other than a laptop fabricated by Mossad. They have consistently condemned nuclear weapons as forbidden to Islamic nations, and call for a nuclear weapons free zone to be declared in the Middle East. The only country preventing this is Israel.
You do not have to like the Shia theocracy (which exists due to Western meddling) but you do have to acknowledge the objective reality of the dearth of evidence of any military dimension to their nuclear program.
Oh my Jake!! Where is the proof? Iran is the rational country here, not Israel. Israel has many good people who want peace, and have their government mind its own business. Unfortunately the bad elements are in control.
Good time to evacate the forever war realm of hate and chaos.. Especially, all the big eyed new comers….
Overt military action would be suicidal, no matter how justified, precisely due to the fact that the only nuclear armed rogue state in the Middle East is Israel. If Israel senses the walls closing in from, say, Iran’s gigantic ballistic missile arsenal, they very well may do the Samson Option thing.
As for VAJA sabotaging Dimona, for instance, that’s something they could do. SHOULD do.
If Pakistan and France have nukes, then why should not Israel have them?
Then why not Iran? Because Tel Aviv doesn’t like it isn’t a good reason.
Because ultimately,Iran wants to destroy Israel, and rule the mideast, and not vice versa.
Oh the satire of Jake…no one takes you seriously. Your bile is reminiscent of plebes like John Bolton, and the terrorist organization AIPAC.
In other words,free speech only for those you approve of. Stalin would be proud.
I am not suppressing your vile and satirical propaganda. I am free to comment where I want..
Israel seeks to expand territory to where it was under King David, that’s part of Zionism and always has been. Think other countries will like Tel Aviv taking part of the land? I don’t.
Fight the power of Zionism at every turn
“Because ultimately,Iran wants to destroy Israel, and rule the mideast, and not vice versa.”
Jake, Jake, Jake. Tsk. 2005 called and would like its absurd neocon rhetoric back.
Or Iran.
Your reference to France and Pakistan is jarring, bizarre, and irrelevant to this issue. We are talking about Iran, who Israel constantly threatens, lying about their nuclear program while hypocritically being exactly what they laughably accuse Iran of being: a rogue nuclear state.
Iran is not expecting deal. China-Russia run SCO is not expecting a deal, so Iran was just promoted to full voting rights membership. Saudi Arabia and Egypt just joined on partner-voting level.
It really is up to US now to decide if the deal, or any deal is making sense any more.
Israel has no choice but to keep US engaged in the region. Biden is being pushed to get back into Syria game, now that Iran has managed a good pat position. US even had to express satisfaction that Iran and Saudi Arabia are reaching an agreement! Sort of wishing them well! Israel is now looking stupid – but will continue the charade until US steps back into Syria by arming Kurds. Turkey will see it for what it is — attempt by US to reignite Kurdish question.
But this will no longer.work. Israel is running out of options.
For every action there is a reaction…!
Since Israel is technically at war with Iran (killing scientists, damaging facilities), whatever Iran decides to do for their common defense makes perfect sense. How about shooting down ANY Israeli aircraft flying over Iranian lands.
If they could,they would have.
Not quite. A slow death for the illegetimate country of israel (who would be doomed without hiding behind the u.s.) is in order.
Israel received an extra $1.0 Billion from American tax payers this week, guess where that money is going.
Israel is a terrorist state. Iranian hardliners’ rhetoric aside, only one side here is assassinating scientists in front of their children when they are perfectly aware that there is no military dimension to the Iranian nuclear program. The only solid evidence of such turned out to be a laptop traced back to Mossad. There is certainly a rogue nuclear armed state in the Middle East. It is not Iran.
A Rogue Nuclear Armed Clepo Apartheid entity. Life goes on & the abused become the abusers.
And on & on the cycle goes, where it stops nobody knows.
Looking forward to the day Iran hits back. They may not have the military capabilities of Isra-hell, but Russia and China do.
Isra-hell needs to be wiped off the face of the earth. It causes nothing but dire problems, dragging Amerikkka along with it. The sooner it’s gone, the better, before it initiates a world-encompassing nuclear war.
It’s nothing but a shitty little quasi-nation that thinks it owns the world.
The Rapture people are looking forward to the day Iran hits back as well. It will be a case of self fulfilling prophecy. Jesus, of course, will rapture up the true believers before the going gets tough.
And, if that doesn’t happen it will be the biggest, most malicious joke on believers yet.
There will be no rapture. We will all be tested via a tribulation.
Ohhhhhh-kaaaaay…….
Ohhhhhh-kaaaaay…….
I don’t think Jesus ever said exactly that. John the Baptist was a chiliast and Jesus was an early disciple, but where does the Rapture stuff come from? And in any event, unsophisticated people (most of us) don’t think or speak in modern scientific concepts, but figuratively. The Bible is poiesis not science. And modern man has a distinct incapacity for poetry.
The Zionist calculation goes: Iran will either (1) hit back or (2) cry “uncle”. The former only if it has Russia-China backing, which at the moment doesn’t stretch that far. However, they are figuring without the “zealotry” factor, the IRGC. So … ??
THE IRGC and its masters are the true danger to peace.
That’s exactly what Hitler claimed of the Jews.
Only the Jews were unarmed and peaceful, and the IRGC is not.
The relative positions (IRGC has no nukes) are essentially the same, …even the “peaceful” part.
IRGC is quite willing to waste their own lives, as well as their enemies.
“Only the Jews were unarmed and peaceful”
“were” being the operative word. Today, not so much.
If the price of survival is to be armed and ready, then it is unfortunate but necessary.
That doesn’t apply to Iran and the IRGC? And with Israel’s constant terroristic acts, which they promise to continue, it’s more justified.
Bile and war mongering.
You just described israel!
Is all the trumpedred
Israel keeps showing the world that it thrives on terror, murder, and its eventual own demise. It is so brazen now with its lies, and fabrications that intelligent minds all over the world believe that Israel does not deserve empathy or respect. Iran has never been a threat, like the US, Israel needs a perpetual boogeyman in order feel legitimate and deflect its obscene terror against the Palestinian people.
Go for it, Israel!
Best of luck to you.
Just leave America out of it… financially as well as militarily.
OK
Is it just my acutely tuned sense of justice by antiwar c-m and its founders, or karma and equality in the law, or am I alone in suspecting that all the recent bad acts of Zionists, have earned gobs & gobs of opprobrium in broad swaths of the world. And that perhaps these acts performed by the “Jewish State” are easy conflated as sins of the Jewish People. Just as the sins of The Notcies were and are often similarly seen as sins of German people writ large. It bears mention that had the Notsees not been so unkind and brutal with their Jewish cohabitents, no major swath of the world’s citizens would have found them complicit in the death of millions. Are there any out there who think that it’s any more unfair to conflate the bad actions of the Zionists with the Jewish people, than has likewise been done by conflating the bad acts of the Notcies with the German people? I think it’s a hard case to attribute such hate largely or exclusively to ethnoreligious hate, and not the brutal killing and genocidal displacement that is & was reigned down in these two bitter and tremendously tragic situations. May God help us all!
Millions of Slavs and Gypsies were also killed by the Nazis. Don’t they count?