Middle East experts say it is “increasingly likely” that Israel will attack Iran's nuclear facilities and refineries following Iran's attack on the Jewish state. Exchanges between Israel and Iran have been ongoing for months, with the latest round in which Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday, most of which were intercepted but one that destroyed a school building. . No one was in the building at the time.
Last week, an Israeli airstrike killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, and before that, a high-tech covert Israeli operation detonated thousands of pagers simultaneously across Lebanon, killing Hezbollah members. There were many casualties. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization based in Lebanon and funded by Iran.
Tensions in the region are rising as Israel prepares to commemorate the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas.
Middle East expert, Israeli citizen Joel Rosenberg Israel believes it could attack inside Iran.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his security cabinet have ordered the Israel Defense Forces to carry out large-scale attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities and refineries, as well as beheading Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Iranian regime. Could he order an attack on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th Hamas invasion that massacred 1,200 Israeli Jews?'' Rosenberg wrote in his column. is written in. AllIsrael.com” serves as the editor-in-chief.
“Yes,” Rosenberg replied. “That’s what I’m looking at, and I believe it’s becoming more and more possible.”
Mr. Rosenberg also supports such strikes.
“That's enough,” he said. I wrote. “Since the Iranian revolution began on February 1, 1979, and the taking of Americans hostage at the American embassy in November of the same year, and the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, and the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, and the And despite having killed hundreds of Israelis directly and through terrorist proxies over the decades, the Iranian regime has never paid a significant price. is.”
October Surprise: Enough is enough. After Iran fired nearly 200 missiles at Israel, the time has come for Israel to decapitate the Iranian regime and destroy its refineries and nuclear facilities. https://t.co/x3qS63hmGb via @all_israel_news
— Joel C. Rosenberg (@JoelCRosenberg) October 2, 2024
“Iran made a big mistake…and it will definitely pay the price,” Netanyahu said.
William Cohen, who served as Secretary of Defense under Democratic President Bill Clinton, said he expected Israel to attack Iran.
“I think Israelis now believe they have the upper hand and that Iran and its proxies are after them. It's time to get to the root of the problem,” Cohen told CNN. is really coming. That is Iran.” “So I expect that they will carry out very serious attacks against many Iranian facilities, probably the oil industry, and probably nuclear facilities. This means that for some time the Israelis will have nuclear weapons in their hands. Iran appears to be close to that possibility.”
Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, said Israel's killing of Nasrallah was “very consequential.”
🧵1) Israel's murder of Hassan Nasrallah has huge implications for the Middle East. Hezbollah is the crown jewel of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the only effective enterprise Iranian revolutionaries have built since 1979, and Nasrallah is crucial to Iran's expansion of power.
— Karim Sajadpour (@ksadjadpour) September 28, 2024
“Hezbollah had already experienced more leadership deaths in the past four months than in the past 40 years,” he said. said On X (old Twitter).
3 Hezbollah had already experienced more leadership deaths in the past four months than in the previous 40 years. In recent works, @firasmaksad Lenin said, “There are decades when nothing happens, but there are weeks when something happens for decades.'' https://t.co/XyyrdALS53
— Karim Sajadpour (@ksadjadpour) September 28, 2024
He noted that Iran is driven by a desire to eradicate Israel.
“Iran's leaders have not been motivated by the welfare of Lebanese or Palestinians, but by the destruction of Israel. Their official slogan has never been 'Long live Palestine' (or 'Long live Iran'); “Death to Israel,” Sadjadpour wrote. “…Nasrallah's death is significant, but it will take years to assess its impact. The key to change in the Middle East remains the Iranian government, whose organizing principles are based on revolutionary ideology (“Death to America, “Death to Israel”), but Iran's national and economic interests. ”
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he supports an attack on Iran's nuclear program.
“Sometimes history knocks on the door and you have to seize the moment,” he told CNN. “If we don't do it now, I don't think it's going to happen. We have to get rid of Iran's nuclear program now.”
However, US President Joe Biden said he opposes an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program.
“They have a right to react, but they should react proportionately,” Biden said of Israel.
On Wednesday, NBC's Richard Engel said the Biden administration is “trying to avoid a regional war, but that ship may have sailed.”
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michael faust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His articles have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, Christian Post, Leaf Chronicle, Toronto Star, and Knoxville News Sentinel.
