2024-10-06 06:23:41
Former Defense Minister Angel Naydenov tried three options for how Israel would respond to the Iranian strikes from the beginning of the week.
Israel will respond as if there was no doubt. The question is when and how, Naydenov commented to BNT.
He described three options. First – for Israel to carry out a mirror strike on military sites in Iran. Second – on objects of the energy infrastructure, i.e. on the oil sector, which will deal a heavy blow both to Tehran and the whole world. Third and most undesirable – a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The question is to what extent the dynamics of the conflict can or cannot be controlled from the point of view of the direct confrontation between Iran and Israel, and whether if not controlled, it will lead to a full-scale war, commented the former minister.
According to him, Netanyahu currently sees a “window of opportunity”, but it is not limited in time. The US may be in control of Netanyahu, but at a time of campaigning in the states, none of the candidates there would risk taking concrete action.
Naydenov suggested that Israel had prepared a plan to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
On Tuesday evening, Iran fired over 200 missiles at Israel. Most of them were intercepted by Israel’s “Iron Dome“, so the damage was relatively small. Even then, however, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that his country would retaliate.