Israel now issues a warning on war with Iran and urges the United States to strike now as tensions continue to build.
An Israeli diplomat has told Newsweek that a large-scale confrontation with Iran was guaranteed to come and called on U.S. President Joe Biden to take direct action against the Islamic Republic sooner than later.
“It’s inevitable,” Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, a special envoy of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, told Newsweek in reference to the looming possibility of a war with Iran as regional tensions threatened to boil over into a serious escalation.
Iran’s recent threats against Israel have raised tensions in the region.
After the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Iran vowed to retaliate, creating a sense of unease in Israel.
To prevent a major escalation, the US has been working to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with both sides currently engaged in a fierce conflict in Gaza.
As new peace talks are set to begin, there is a palpable sense of worry in Israel, particularly in Jerusalem, a city at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Hassan-Nahoum, a former Jerusalem official, has described the current atmosphere as “very heavy” due to Iran’s aggressive rhetoric.
The anxiety has gotten to the point that she believes Iran and its allies “are winning the psychological warfare.”
It’s not just Israel, however.
She said the specter of a major Iranian strike appears to be haunting much of the region, including Arab states that Hassan-Nahoum asserted are increasingly on board with a plan to take down the Islamic Republic, even if Israel’s ally, the U.S., was not.
“I don’t think America has understood that the ultimate goal here has to be regime change in Iran,” Hassan-Nahoum said.
“All America would have to do is target the nuclear infrastructure with hardware that only America has. We can’t do this on our own,” she said.
“With bunker bombs, etc., they could destroy the nuclear infrastructure, then they could destroy four different infrastructure and energy points in Iran, and then the people would take over.”
Iran has invested heavily in fortifying its military and nuclear infrastructure and has expanded both its offensive and defensive arsenal of missile and drone systems, per NewsWeek.
Iran has also deepened its partnership with Russia in recent years, including in the field of defense, but Hassan-Nahoum argued that recent setbacks in the ongoing war in Ukraine would prove an obstacle for Moscow should it seek to shield the Islamic Republic from a U.S. attack.
“Russia is not in the position to help Iran right now. So, this would be the critical moment,” Hassan-Nahoum said.
“They’ve been put on the defense by Ukraine right now.
This would be the best time.”
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Trump now issues a warning stating Israel will be attacked by Iran soon as tensions deepen between Benjamin Netanyahu and Masoud Pezeshkian.
Israeli and Iranian leaders have exchanged warning threats, highlighting the deepening crisis between their nations.
At a ceremony in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation with a resolute tone.
Amid a backdrop of rising regional tensions, Netanyahu declared, “Anyone who harms our country will be held accountable. Iran and its proxies seek to surround us with a stranglehold of terror on seven fronts.
Their visible aggression is insatiable, but Israel is not helpless.
We are determined to stand against them on every front, in every arena, far and near.
Anyone who murders our citizens, anyone who harms our country will be held accountable.
He will pay a very heavy price.”
On a livestream from Mar-a-Lago, former president Donald Trump told gamer and streamer Adin Ross that he heard there was going to be an attack on Israel on Monday night.
Trump said he heard this “through the same waves” and not from top secret information, though he didn’t specify where he actually obtained the information.
“I’m hearing there’s going to be an attack tonight by Iran, Israel’s going to be attacked tonight, I’m telling you right now I hear it just through the same waves, there’s no top secret information,” Trump stated on the livestream.
Neither the US nor Israel have publicly said they are anticipating Iran’s retaliatory act to occur Monday night, per The Jerusalem Post.
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