Benny Gantz: Israel is updating its plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities
Benny Gantz, Israel’s defense minister, said that the country’s military is updating its plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Gantz said in an interview with Fox News released on Thursday that if the international community takes no action regarding Iran’s nuclear program, Israel will act alone.
Fox News says Israel has identified many targets within Iranian territory that could be attacked to damage Iran’s ability to develop its nuclear program.
Israel’s defense minister said, if the world stops Iran’s (nuclear ambitions), that would be very good. But if it doesn’t, we must stand independently and we ourselves must defend ourselves.
Fox News says intelligence estimates indicate that Iran will likely carry out attacks against Israel in 2021 through its proxy forces in Syria and Lebanon.
Gantz further stated in the interview that the Lebanese Hezbollah group has hundreds of thousands of missiles at its disposal.
Fox News says Gantz presented a classified map of targets where Lebanese Hezbollah stores these missiles, showing that many of these rockets are stored in civilian non-military residential areas along the border.
Israel’s defense minister said, the target map is operational. Each one has been examined from legal, operational and intelligence perspectives and we are ready for battle.
Fox News says Israel’s annual defense force report shows that Israel is preparing for a multi-day war with Hezbollah.
Israeli domestic media say that in case of confrontation, Israel would target 3,000 targets daily in Lebanon and 300 members of this group would be killed.
According to this report, General Aviv Kohavi, the army chief of staff, said that more than 500 positions of Iranian-backed forces in Syria have been targeted since the beginning of 2020.
US President Joe Biden issued an order last week to attack positions of Iranian-backed militias in Syria.
The Biden administration has supported the return of the United States to a nuclear deal with Iran and said it would use this agreement as a basis for addressing Iran’s regional behavior.
However, Israel’s Prime Minister said on the fifth day of Esfand that his government “has no hope for any nuclear deal with Iran”.
Benjamin Netanyahu, directly addressing the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, added “with or without a deal, Israel will not refrain from any practical action to prevent your extremist, barbaric and tyrannical regime from obtaining nuclear weapons”.
Source: Radio Farda
