ANALYSE – The war against Hamas in Gaza, the military intervention against Hezbollah in Lebanon and the operations to destroy Bashar al-Assad’s military equipment have weakened the Iranian axis in the region.
No more than the other powers did Israel see the sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime coming. But it was barely confirmed that the IDF, the army, was sending its planes to attack the military equipment of the deposed dictator. A speed of action which is explained by « the extraordinary opportunity », in the words of one diplomat, to weaken Iran, Israel’s existential enemy.
« Syria was Iran’s hub for arms trafficking in the region. In this failed state, the Iranians had installed numerous military structures and were training their terrorists. By striking Syrian targets, we weaken the Iranian Shiite crescent », summarizes Avital Leibovitch, director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in Jerusalem, during meetings organized by the committee. The fleet, aviation, air defense, missiles and ammunition depots were targeted by Israeli strikes. But the IDF…
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