Israel has stepped up its efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear program and missile program in a series of covert operations aimed at key targets, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Monday) from knowledgeable sources.
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The new moves are part of a strategy dubbed the “Octopus Doctrine” by the prime minister Naftali BennettWhich aims to bring the conflict between Jerusalem and Tehran, to Iranian territory, after years in which the strategy focused on Iranian agents and emissaries outside the country in places like Syria.
“Israel is working with the head of the Iranian octopus anywhere and anytime, we will not accept its intensification,” Bennett told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee earlier this month. “The days of immunity in which Iran is harming Israel through its branches in the area unharmed – those days are over. We are acting at any time and place,” he added.
According to the report, Israel has stepped up its efforts against Iran in the past year, using UAV attacks designed to hit Iranian nuclear facilities and bases. The mysterious deaths in recent weeks of at least six Iranian men involved in Iran’s military and nuclear programs have also raised questions about whether Israel is responsible for them.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the deaths. Iran called some of them saints, meaning they died while on duty, and vowed revenge. Israeli and Iranian officials declined to comment. One of the last Iranians to die in mysterious circumstances after falling ill was Ayoub Entzari, a young space scientist who worked on building drones, missiles and planes. According to a relative, Antzari was worried and worried about his safety after his picture appeared on state television in 2019 Biazd.
Job Antzari, along with two other suspected Iranians recently assassinated by Israel, had expertise that could link them to Iran’s nuclear or missile programs, according to Ronen Solomon, an independent Israeli intelligence analyst and editor of the Intel Times blog.
Kamran Agamoulay, 31, was an Iranian geologist who fell ill earlier this month and died soon after. Mr. Agamoulay, Solomon said, had the skills needed to find underground sites for nuclear testing. In the early 2000s Iran was looking for nuclear test sites, according to documents from their nuclear archives stolen from the country by Israeli agents in 2018.
Muhammad Abdus, 32, died on June 12 while on duty in the northern province of Samanan, the Iranian Ministry of Defense said on its official news website, but did not provide the information on the cause of death. Mr Abdos has been identified by the Fares news agency, which is close to security forces, as an employee at the aerospace center where Iran has launched homemade rockets and satellites in recent years.
“From everything we see from Iran, Israel has succeeded in creating a frontal base from which it can carry out complex operations within Iran using a variety of means,” Solomon said. Colonel Hassan Sayed Khodai, an officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who was shot and killed outside his home in Tehran, led the Revolutionary Guards’ efforts to kill dissidents around the world and carry out attacks against Israelis.
In response, the Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Guards said Tehran would retaliate. “The enemy, from the heart of the White House and Tel Aviv, has been following him for months and years, door to door and alley to alley to kill him.”
Recently, Israel warned its citizens not to travel to Turkey, especially to Istanbul, due to an immediate threat posed to them by Iranian units seeking to harm Israelis. Israeli fears peaked last Friday, when Israeli officials advised Israeli tourists in Istanbul to stay in their rooms and not open the door to foreigners, amid a warning that Iran had given permission for a deadly attack in Turkey.
Defense Minister Bnei Gantz He said that more than two weeks after Israel raised its highest level of risk in Turkey, Israelis in it are still in danger. “The State of Israel is working to thwart Iranian attempts to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens who are in Turkey and is ready to respond with determination to any threat,” he wrote.
Ram Ben BarakThe chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said today that “there are still Iranian cells in Istanbul whose sole purpose is to capture Israelis and kill them.” “We will not hesitate to use the power of the State of Israel anywhere in the world to protect our citizens,” he said.
On the other hand, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards recently told the Tasnim news agency that Tehran is secretly hitting Israel whenever Israel hits Iran.
It has also been alleged that Israel has carried out more than 400 airstrikes against Iran and its allies in Syria since 2017. Russia and Syria recently accused Israel of carrying out an airstrike earlier this month that shut down Damascus International Airport. Israel and Iran each used mines to hit their opponents’ ships in the water throughout the Middle East.
Demolition at Damascus airport (Photo: Reuters)Iran has accused Israel of carrying out a massive air strike on one of its glider facilities, and responded to the attack by firing missiles at a compound in northern Iraq that Tehran claims was used by Mossad agents. The continuing escalation indicates that the Israeli secret campaign has failed to significantly harm Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons and has not prevented it from expanding and influencing the region. “It has no strategic impact,” said Danny Citrinovic, a former head of the Iranian Security Service. “We are very close to escalating with Iran. At the end of the day, the Iranians will take revenge – and what will happen next? “
The development of Israeli policy comes as US-led efforts to establish a new agreement containing Tehran’s nuclear capabilities with Iran are on the verge of collapse. “M.